The key management staff of OPay Nigeria led by the company’s President, Olu Akanmu converged on Lagos Road, Ikorodu on Thursday to commission the new Ikorodu Business office, the first in the series of three new offices planned to support OPay merchants and agents to render seamless, efficient service to customers.

The office tagged “Ile Ilosiwaju/Ibukun” by the President/CEO, in his opening remarks disclosed that with this new office, merchants and agents can do their transaction resolutions, request new POS terminals and repairs in this office of ‘progress and prosperity without unnecessary waste of transit time going to the main office at Ikeja.

While revealing that the office should have been opened a long time ago, the CTO/Agency Banking, OPay, Dotun Adekunle earlier in his opening remarks, urged the agents, merchants and customers gathered to take advantage of the new office as OPay has been brought to their doorsteps while adding, “Our business is more than POS, OPay is Beyond Banking”.

Going into the nitty-gritty of the motive behind the company’s decision to decentralize its offices in an interview with our correspondent, the President/CEO of OPay Nigeria revealed that OPay is a grassroots business and so opening the Ikorodu office is to be closer to customers. “We are doing it all over strategic areas in Lagos – Ikorodu, Festac and Ajah and many more places so that our customers and especially our merchants and agents can reach us more conveniently”.

While declaring that development is also a way of supporting the communities, Akanmu said, “We are a business of inclusive prosperity; we recognize the social and commercial roles the OPay agents play in their communities. For a lot of people, it is the money they collect from the OPay agents sent by their acquaintances, that they use to set up their businesses or pay the school fees for their children. So in OPay, we are in the business of touching lives and making prosperity spread more widely within the people”, the President/CEO declared.

In the light of this, he further explained that everything OPay does to support these agents and merchants, helps the company to fulfil its purpose of helping the OPay agents to support their communities much more and share prosperity. L: R CTO & VP, Agency Banking, Adedotun Adekunle, Area CDA chairman, Elder Oladapo Emmanuel, President, OPay Nigeria, Olu Akanmu

L: R CTO & VP, Agency Banking, Adedotun Adekunle, Area CDA chairman, Elder Oladapo Emmanuel, President, OPay Nigeria, Olu Akanmu

“This OPay office will make our merchants more successful as they touch their communities more and better, for a more inclusive and prosperous Nigeria for everybody”.

Although, the company has offices in 26 states nationwide, “We are repeating this in other states. More importantly, where the cities are large, we are also going to decentralize especially in places like Ibadan, Kano and Port Harcourt so that we can physically support our agents such that they need not travel far to access good services and convenience.

In his closing remarks, the CTO revealed that OPay leads in the field of agency banking in Nigeria with agents in excess of 500,000 across Nigeria, “even in the North East, North West, in places where banks could never get to”. He added that the three new offices being opened in Lagos brings the number of offices in Lagos to 6, Oyo – 2, Ogun – 2 and more are still in the works just to be closer to the people.

In their goodwill messages, Elder Oladapo Emmanuel, Area CDA chairman, and Alhaja Alimot Bakare, Iyaloja praised OPay for creating more jobs for people within the community and advised the people to take the advantage of the new office by subscribing to become agents or merchants. “We can become agents even when we are currently doing something”, Iyaoja said while Elder described OPay as “Irorun” which translates to “bringing convenience”, he reiterated that OPay offers a more convenient way to offering financial services in Nigeria. OPay Agents and Merchants won various prizes at the commissioning of the Ikorodu office.

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