DRAFT FOR CHAIRMAN SEAL · NOT SENT · Oliver Alawuba · Nigeria only · nationwide desks · 30-day then quarterly
UBA GMD · nationwide Nigerian desks · Orca

CONFIDENTIAL STRATEGIC BRIEF

TO:      The Group Managing Director / Chief Executive
         Officer
         United Bank for Africa Plc
FROM:    Dr. Jaafaru Sa’ad
         Chairman
         Galadiman Ruwa Center for Strategic Leadership
         and Communication (GCSLC/IT)
SUBJECT: Keeping your rural agents — and cutting the
         daily cost of stalled POS trades
         nationwide Nigerian desks · first 30 days, then quarterly

Sir,

This is a business note, not a technology brief.
Your core already books the naira. NIBSS already
clears what it clears. We do not replace either.
We do not charge your customer. We do not keep
your files. We sit beside a good Nigerian post
that the shed cannot see, so the agent does not
lose the ward.

This envelope is Nigeria, every branch, at once.
It is not a ten-branch pond. It is not a continental programme.

1. The bottleneck at the grassroots

Your core and NIBSS can do their jobs and the
trade still dies at the table.

In rural and market-town branches, the POS times
out, the screen goes blank, or the paper jams.
The customer’s account is already debited. The
agent will not release cash or goods. The farmer
walks. Your staff then spend the afternoon on
reversals, arguments, and reconciliation.

That is not a switch failure. It is a trust
failure at the edge. It costs you fee income,
agent loyalty, and hours of branch time. Agents
who lose face in the market stop pushing your
book. That is the bleed.

2. What we sell — in one paragraph

After UBA Nigeria has already posted a successful
trade, you nod at us. We write a short ticket
that the agent can show: the amount, and a short
reference from your own book. Then, within two
minutes, we empty our glass. We keep no agent
list, no customer file, no ledger.

If you want the farmer’s basic phone to beep
afterwards, we can send a plain text. That beep
may be late. It may fail. The ticket still
stands. The beep is a courtesy. It is not the
payment. It is not a second court.

We do not sit in front of NIBSS.
We do not move the naira.
We do not ask the retail customer to pay.
The ₦12 is your OPEX — the cost of showing a
post that already happened.

Name, if useful in the room: 1st-GVVAU — a
proof utility after your book. Not a wallet.
Not a shadow switch. Not a Lagos warehouse
of African customers.

3. Two pictures from the shed

The paper jam
  A customer pays ₦15,000. Your Nigerian core
  has it. The POS does not print.

  Today: the agent refuses. The customer leaves
  angry. A reversal follows. We cost that
  incident at about ₦4,000 in staff time and
  disruption — before you count the lost next
  three faces in the queue.

  With us: the agent can see a short ticket
  that your book already owns. The goods can
  move on UBA’s post, not on a blinking
  terminal. If a text arrives later, it only
  repeats what the book already said.

The fake alert
  Fraudsters show merchants a screenshot.
  Agents have learned to trust nothing.

  We do not tell you that a text message cannot
  be faked. We tell you the opposite: do not
  let the shed run on screenshots. The agent
  looks at a ticket that exists only if UBA
  posted. Your book remains the court.
  We are not a second one.

4. Nationwide desks — unit math, then N glasses

Every Nigerian UBA branch, at once. Enrolled
rural and agent POS — not every journal in
the branch. We do not invent your national
volume. One busy desk, then N independent
glasses.

Working model (ours, for the room — not your
MIS until your retail desk confirms):

  One enrolled desk     about 150 posts a day
  Stall after a good post   10%   =   15 a day
  Walk-away or dispute      40%   =    6 a day
  Cost per dispute              ₦4,000
  Daily bleed at that desk
                       6 × ₦4,000  =  ₦24,000
  Monthly bleed        × 22 days   =  ₦528,000

  Our toll at that desk
                       150 × ₦12   =  ₦1,800 a day
                       × 22 days   =  ₦39,600 a month

N desks do not share a warehouse. Toll is
₦12 × enrolled posts. A Lagos pile of pending
stamps would be a second switch. We refuse
that pile.

We do not say we “completely eliminate” every
loss. We say ₦1,800 a day is the price of
showing 150 good posts at that desk, against
a ₦24,000 daily argument you already pay.

First 30 days: nationwide sitting, one nod
from your Nigerian book, and the first 25,000
tickets. Then ₦12 per stamp. Then quarterly
review of the stamp — attest_ms, empty glass —
not a publication of your failure rate.

A second African host is a new seat and a
new book in that host. It is not this paper.

We do not take a percent of the ₦15,000.
We do not charge the customer.
No new consumer tariff. No CBN price-list
fight for a retail fee we do not levy.

5. What we guarantee — and what we do not

  The customer is not charged.
  We do not bypass NIBSS. We do not replace
  NIBSS. We ticket after your successful post.
  We warehouse nothing. Two minutes, then
  the glass is empty except a short stub
  you may already have copied.

  We do not fix the mast.
  We do not light a dark cell.
  We do not ask for your agent database.
  We do not ask you to release goods on a
  text before your own book has posted.
  We do not take a 20-country file.

6. The ask

One sitting, in a room you name. Every Nigerian
branch at once. Thirty days. Then quarterly.
Your people watch a post, a ticket, and an empty
glass.

We are ready when you are.

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Jaafaru Sa’ad
(Galadiman Ruwan Zazzau)
Chairman
Galadiman Ruwa Center for Strategic Leadership
and Communication
GCSLC/IT