KWARA, JUNE 4, 2018 – Ecobank has entered into a strategic partnership with Kwara State government and South Gate Technologies on land administration. This entails the computerisation of the end to end processes of all land related matters in the state as opposed to the manually driven mechanism, which allows for revenue leakages.
Ecobank and its technical partner, South Gate Technologies, will develop and deploy e-governance solutions for better revenue efficiency. The project is to be executed under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model of Design-Finance-Deploy- Train and Manage (DFD-TM) with a tenor of five years.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the state and South Gate Technologies was signed in Illorin to signify the commencement of the scheme last week.
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) Group Chief Executive, Ade Ayeyemi, who was represented by Group Head, Cash Management and Client Access, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) Isaac Kamuta, said the choice of Ecobank as partner in the digitisation project further attested to the Bank’s pedigree in revenue collection and digital banking technology. He assured that the Bank has put measures in place to ensure the realisation of the set objectives.
“We are indeed, glad for this opportunity extended to us once again by the Kwara State government. We will make success out of this project just like we did with the Kwara Payroll project. Also, working with our partner, South Gate Technologies, who have the requisite expertise, having embarked on similar projects in some other states, will definitely bring about the expected result,” he said.
The state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, said land administration digitisation was an e-governance initiative meant to introduce efficiency into land administration, create optimal utilisation of wealth and effective deployment of goods and services in the state. The Governor said the reform was giant step towards efficiency in deployment of goods and services to create maximum impact on majority of people through the deployment of technology.
