The Bank of Ghana (BOG) and the ARB Apex Bank have been urged to accelerate the computerization of Rural and Community Banks (RCB's) in the Country to facilitate their operations. The Regional Coordinator of Trias Ghana, Mr. Rex Asanga, made the call when his outfit donated 78 computers, printers and other accessories valued at GHc50,017.71 to 12 Rural/Community Banks (RCBs) operating in the three Northern Regions. Trias Ghana is an NGO working to build the capacity of RCBs in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions, and to support them in micro-financing. Mr Asanga stated that there was the need for the BOG and Apex Bank to fast track the computerization programme of the RCBs which had been budgeted for under the Millennium Challenge pact. He noted that most RCBs upon hearing news about the computerization of banks decided to employ staff and prepared data waiting for the process to start but it had not yet been done. In a related development, the Board Chairman of the BESSFA Rural Bank in the Garu-Tempane District of the Upper East Region, Mr Solomon Atiga, has expressed concern about the delay in the establishment of the computerization process of rural banks as promised by the BOG and Apex Bank, saying that it was undermining the performance of rural banks. Source: GNA