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Feb
Residents of the Akuapem South Municipal Assembly (ASMA) in the Eastern Region have not had access to banking services in their municipality for nearly five years. The vacuum was created in 2018 after the GCB Bank, the only commercial bank with presence in the municipal capital, Aburi, for many years, closed its branch to customers and subsequently migrated its operations to Mampong in the Akuapem North Municipality. This situation has forced the residents to either rely on an automated teller machine (ATM) in Aburi, which often breaks down, or join long queues at Mampong, an approximately 8.1km distance from Aburi,…