Access Bank takes CSR initiatives to law enforcement agencies

Access Bank plc is focusing on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives on improving the lives and well being of law enforcement agents in the country.
Speaking at the meeting with law enforcement agents and beneficiaries of its CRS initiatives held in Lagos, the Access Bank’s chief compliance officer, Pattison Boleigha, said “the law enforcement agents, especially the Police have sacrificed so much to ensure that the society is safe and needs to be rewarded.”
Many security officials have been killed in the course of their duty, and the bank has decided to recognise them by supporting the families they left behind, including providing educational grant to support their children’s education.
Boleigha, who was represented by head of branch control, Access Bank, Abiodun Aponbiede, said the bank had also refurbished the conference room of the Police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, to ensure that law enforcement agents do their work in a conducive environment.
“It’s about showcasing our CSR initiatives for 2014. As a bank, we know that we have benefitted from the society. I believe that we need to give back to the society. That process of giving back is what we are championing and the bank at the corporate level has its own overall CSR initiatives. We are also encouraged at the individual level as a bank to champion different CSR initiatives in the overall interest of the society. For this year, we are looking at law enforcement agents,” Boleigha said.
Other CSR initiatives of the bank, he said, are empowerment/skill acquisition programme like beads making, baking of cake, preparing Chapman, among others, for wives of deceased Police officers and female officers at Bar Beach Police Station.
The bank also promotes empowerment lecture series on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on education/literacy and on health, among other initiatives.
Speaking further, Boleigha explained that “leadership involves a clear vision, sharing the vision with others so they can follow, providing information to realise the vision and the balance to co-ordinate interests and achieve success.
“The spate of activities in the country call for collaboration with Law Enforcement Agencies, that should be the direction of corporate responsible action.”