45 Central Region queens benefit from GH¢44,000 MASLOC loan
The Micro and Small Loans Scheme (MASLOC) has given out GH¢44,000 in loans to 45 queens in the Central Region to support their business ventures.
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The President of the Central Regional Queens Association, Nana Ama Amissah, who is the Queen of Mankessim, received the money and thanked the scheme for the support.
Nana Amissah said considering the unique role queens played in society, they could not engage in menial jobs.
It was based on that, she said, that they appealed to MASLOC to grant them loans that would enable them to engage in decent jobs and also enable others to expand their businesses.
The Chief Executive Officer of MASLOC, Mrs Sedina Tamakloe Attionu, said the scheme needed to recover about GH¢65 million in loans owed by people to continue to sustain it.
She said although the scheme had helped to change the lives of many, there was the need to get the people to repay the loans.
Mrs Attionu, who was in the Central Region for a day’s working visit, also called on the Central Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Sarpong, and held a meeting with officials of the regional office of MASLOC.
She told Mr Sarpong that MASLOC would improve the supervision and monitoring of loan beneficiaries to ensure that the beneficiaries paid back the loans.
Mr Sarpong promised to help ensure the effective monitoring of MASLOC-assisted projects in the region.
Mrs Attionu later interacted with fishmongers at Moree and assured them that MASLOC would commit more resources to support many of them if they paid their loans promptly.
The women called for the prompt disbursement of the loans to meet the fishing season to ensure that their use was maximised.
The Central Regional Manager of MASLOC, Mr Peter Dadzie, assured the beneficiaries of the scheme’s support to ensure that they maximised profits.
