The Securities and exchange commission sets to reduce N190bn unclaimed dividends

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Following the efforts put in place to reduce the level of unclaimed dividends by investors in the capital market, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it is improving the strategies to diminish unclaimed dividends.

The apex regulator joined with dual responsibilities of regulating and developing the Nigerian capital market made this known to journalists on Thursday after a three-day investors clinic  which was held in Yobe State to address complaints from investors in the region.

Mr. Danladi Mohammed, Head of the SEC Zonal Office, declared that the investor clinic was in conjunction with the Gombe State Investment and Property Development Company to aid investors with unclaimed dividends and related matters.

Danladi affirmed the three-day exercise was Organised for creating awareness and enlightenment on e-dividend, dispelling of shares certificates, and direct cash settlement payment system, among other initiatives

It was also to handle inquiries and complaints from shareholders in Yobe State and its environs.

“The initiative is one in a series of programmes, and strategies toward reducing the level of unclaimed dividends which stood at N190bn in August 2023, by creating awareness, particularly in the regions; to make the investing public come forward to take what rightfully belongs to them – This is one of the key objectives of the Capital Market Development Master Plan 2015 to 2025,” he said.

“It will be recalled that the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Lamido Yuguda, while briefing the members of the House Committee on Capital Market and Institutions on the overview of the capital market and it’s importance to the Nigeria economy intimated that the commission had made several efforts in the past and has a lot of strategies and measures in place to tackle the rise in unclaimed dividends.

The Director-General said, “The core mandate of the commission is to regulate and develop the capital market of Nigeria to be on a par with its counterparts in other jurisdictions in all ramifications; and the commission is not resting on its oars to achieving and sustaining that mission. The Commission will embark on a series of investor clinics in 2024 in all the regions of the federation to provide the platforms for investors to reap the benefits of investing in the capital market”.

The commission disclosed that, at the end of the three-day event, it has helped to address many complaints by investors who attended the clinic which included the request for guidance on E-dividend adoption, change/reconciliation of names, schemes consideration pay-off,verification share certificate, transmission of shares & payment of outstanding dividends and many other issues.

Capital market experts have been blamed over the rise in unclaimed dividends to either a change in residential address by investors and failure to update records with the registrars or investment companies or not keeping track of personal investments or investment owned by deceased relatives.

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