BY JEFF OTIENO

Mass exodus of depositors has hit Guardian Bank Biashara Branch, Nairobi, due to what the enraged customers interviewed described as “high handedness, racism and blatant arrogance” by the braggy Managing Director, Mr. Vasant Shetty.

According to the exiting customers and demoralized workers, Shetty has formed a tendency of importing foreigners, mostly Asians, with questionable academic credentials, to take over from Kenyan natives.

To add credentials to the claim, they wondered about the circumstances under which Shetty brought his own cronies from India, contrary to bank ethics. They are Mr. and Mrs. Patwa and Mr. and Mrs. Patni (husbands and wives) employed working at Biashara and Westlands Branches in Nairobi.

Shetty is further being accused by the demoralized workers who are threatening to strike soon if the board cannot intervene for lacking open door policy whenever a client goes to him for advice.

Shetty, who is a fan of prohibited sites in the internet even during working hours, cannot easily be assessed by even prominent clients opting to entrust a clique of his cronies as mandarins.

“We cannot understand who the god father of Shetty is because we have done all we could to prevail upon the board to talk to him with a view of getting a change but in futility”, quipped four workers who talked on condition of anonymity.

“Even if he’s highly connected he should exhibit semblance of rapport and professionalism to customers or else we will continue to lose customers”, they thundered.

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