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North-Western Province Minister, Nathaniel Mubukwanu has implored commercial banks in the county to be innovative and come up with stimulus empowerment packages targeting women and youths to have access to means of production.
Mr Mubukwanu said government has invested heavily in women and youth empowerment programmes but it has huge responsibilities of taking care of other social needs of the people.
He said this in Solwezi last week when he officially re-launched Atlas Mara bank Solwezi branch which was refurbished at a cost of over K350, 000.
“I want to challenge Atlas Mara and all the commercial banks in the Republic of Zambia to be innovative. While the government will continue to play its part like we rolled out the economic recovery plan yesterday, we want commercial banks to supplement government efforts by coming up with innovative stimulus packages, innovative empowerment programmes that will target the women, that will target the young people so that they too can have