Demands to provide POS devices in public places before citizens are forced to use them, 29 DEC

Demands to provide POS devices in public places before citizens are forced to use them

Shafaq News/ Most markets and fuel filling stations lack POS devices, despite the Council of Ministers’ directives to implement the electronic payment system in state institutions, the private sector, commercial centers, stores, markets, and other entertainment facilities.

Citizens still lack the provision of POS devices, and there are demands from the Central Bank, banks, and electronic payment companies to provide POS points of sale and make them accessible to citizens for use with electronic cards when shopping and paying instead of cash.

Fuel filling stations are also suffering from the lack of POS machines at the stations, and citizens are confused about payment, especially with the Ministry of Oil’s calls for early next year to abandon cash and adopt electronic payment at filling stations.

Economic expert Durgham Muhammad Ali said, in an interview with Shafaq News Agency, that “there must be media campaigns to raise awareness about the benefit of the electronic card, the mechanism for obtaining it, and its cost, and dealing with it must be voluntary in the beginning, so that later there will be an understanding of its importance and advantages, and that it may spread and be obtained.” A goal for the citizen, not an obligation on him.”

He stated that “electronic payment has more advantages and security than cash dealing,” noting that “filling and withdrawing devices for these cards must be deployed in various markets, stores, and economic events. Therefore, withdrawal devices must be deployed in the streets and markets before they begin to impose them forcibly.”

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