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Bank reveals signatories in Anyona case

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Published on Saturday, 02 June 2007 07:45

The National Bank of Kenya yesterday produced details of a women's group account associated with the late George Anyona.The record showed that Sh1.4 million was withdrawn by three signatories – two of them strangers to the group’s account. The signatories named by the bank’s Kisii branch manager, Mr Francis Agwao, in an affidavit are Mrs Milka Gisairo, Ms Thabita Mogaka and Ms Rebecca Nyambeki.

While Mrs Gisairo was among the initial signatories appointed by the Chabumba Women's Group in 1992, the other two were never elected as officials or signatories of the group's bank account.On May 31, 1999, the account was declared dormant and Sh1, 299,583, transferred to a suspense account. However, the affidavit filed by Mr Agwao does not name the three new signatories who had been introduced to the bank's management by the former Kitutu Masaba MP to take over from Mrs Gisairo’s team.

The funds saga has delayed Mr Anyona’s burial for almost four months since he died in a road accident in Nairobi. New officials replaced Mrs Gisairo as a signatory in 1995 according to affidavits filed in court. The trio were to be replaced by Mrs Callen Onkoba, Mr Yunuke Bosire and Mr Kennedy Ndege, who enjoined the bank as a third party demanding that it accounts for the money withdrawn from the women group's account. These were the officials who banked Sh1.4 million raised at a funds drive in 1997. They thought that the money had been banked in a fixed account but found it was missing soon after Mr Anyona's death.