Our correspondent had visited the bandit-ravaged communities to report on residents' ordeals unaware that bandits had attacked one of the communities on April 3, 2023, a day before he visited.
Financial inclusion has been identified as an enabler for seven of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and the World Bank Group also considered it a key enabler to reduce extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. There is, however, a lot to worry about with the financial exclusion of residents of these communities due to a…