Ouagadougou: The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), Der Rogation Poda, indicated Friday in Ouagadougou that his structure has an ‘army of seasoned professionals’ to support all member states that wish it, including his country Burkina Faso.

‘The central bank, by its constitutive texts, is a financial advisor to States. Therefore, it has an army of seasoned professionals on all levels, macroeconomic aspects, monetary and financial aspects to support all member states who wish to benefit from its assistance,’ indicated the Vice-Governor of the BCEAO, Der Rogation Poda.

For Mr. Poda, the central bank will be driven by a spontaneous movement to support Burkina like all other states.

‘As a national of Burkina, I would be happy to follow with interest these types of assistance desired by our country,’ he promised.

The Vice-Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), came out Friday evening from an interview during which he thanked his country for his appointment
as Vice-Governor of the BCEAO.

For him, the support of the BCEAO in Burkina is already done through several mechanisms in particular “the aggregation of all the programs of the different States to put in place a monetary program common to all the States and therefore allow the issuance currency on behalf of the different States.

According to him, the country has for this “a national agency of the BCEAO which is the receptacle of the needs and which identifies all the situations which would make it possible to make them known at the headquarters level so that all the necessary assistance is provided to our States, particularly in Burkina Faso.’

Source: Burkina Information Agency