FirstBank Ghana Limited, a subsidiary of FirstBank of Nigeria Limited has held a health walk as part of its New Year activities. The event gave the bank an opportunity to encourage participants to take on healthy lifestyles.

Speaking at the end of the walk in Accra, Managing Director of FirstBank Ghana Limited, Victor Yaw Asante said that ‘the bank embarked on the walk to welcome the new year with new energy and enthusiasm.

According to Mr. Asante, the FirstBank Walk was meant to, inform, influence and inculcate in participants, and members of the public in general, the need to live a balanced lifestyle. He stressed the need for participants to exercise regularly and adopt a healthy lifestyle that will give them a sound mind in a sound body.

Mr. Victor Yaw Asante reiterated that FirstBank Ghana is continuing its quest to endear the brand to its stakeholders in the Ghanaian market. “This is because we take pride in being exclusively customer-centric and we go to great lengths to put the needs of our customers at the heart of our business. Our commitment is to set the gold standard of customer experience and excellence in financial services solutions. Since 1894, our brand has developed a unique culture of making the people we serve our top priority and today, we reinforce our application of this culture, even as we provide unrivalled value to all our customers.”

While congratulating participants for embarking on the walk, Mr. Asante concluded by saying that today we want to refocus participants and members of the public on the need to embrace a culture of exercising this year and beyond. “He expressed the hope that the culture of exercising will stay with all of us long after this walk has ended.”

The FirstBank walk started from the Ghana School of Law, Makola through the Liberation Road and ended at the bank’s head office, Airport. In all, about 200 participants comprising members of staff and the bank’s stakeholders participated in the FirstBank Ghana walk.