Is Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) acting illegal in South Sudan BY: Chier Akueny Anyithiec, Bishop Stuart University, Uganda
JULY 16/2011, SSN; Dear South Sudanese, today I feel greatly concerned to lodge in my protest to the government of newly independence nation of South Sudan to scrutinize the exploitative action of Kenya Commercial Bank (Western Union) and other institutions operating in the newest country. Pertinent to this issue, though KCB in particular has been operating in South Sudan since the peace was initiated, however, the bank never involved the factual or lawful measures that should be governing the banks. I felt surprised to find KCB rejecting the local currencies of Sudan (Sudanese Pound) and demanding for the dollar in transaction. All those who send money to their relatives or others abroad are denied the right of using their local currencies when the bank is in fact operating in that particular country. This is so ridiculous and it shows great lack of effective governance in South Sudan, otherwise such things would never happen in factual sense. KCB continues it unauthorized high charges compared to the rates it charges in Kenya, Uganda, and the list goes, but only in South Sudan where everything unlawful is expected to be happening, because people take as an South Sudan unlawful country. Therefore, today, are we expecting such biases from foreign institutions without laws being initiated against these acts? Now, are we going to maintain KCB with such illicit acts against citizens of South Sudan? It is truly absurd to find that $100 is being commissioned for $20 by the same KCB money transfer, which leaves the sender with no options but to cry about such hard conditions imposed by these foreign banks or organizations. There is always wrong thinking by these foreign banks; they term South Sudanese rich and so they just come to the country to take advantages of our weak civilians but not to serve them as usual, rather, enough that they started their own way of exploiting the citizens. The government of South Sudan should wake up from sleep this time and address the dishonest activities being continued by foreign institutions in the country; otherwise the country is coming to the worst soon on the side of living standards of the citizens. To come back to the point, the commission on money transfer in the rest of the countries is only charged 10% or less. I would simply challenge the government of South Sudan to tell us, if these situations are favorable for us as it wanted the country to join East African community (EAC) immediately after independence on 9th July. If not, then we as citizens of the country are going to decide our fate, since it will be our determination to be solving our grievances because it is something odd to us to continue getting such uneasy lives when we have experienced tortured lives for so long or many year of war, hunger, lack of education as you can see South Sudan’s educated population is less than 30% if I am not proven wrong this time. Finally, we should never expect the government of South Sudan to put us in the gutter of pain and agony again this time, which shows nothing less than poor management of our resources. Some of government officials feel nervous or edgy to see such articles but I would simply say that, it is our general incumbent concerns to address the problems prevailing and to put them to government’s attention. Please, nothing we are waiting for, the country is solely under our control; let's work for improvements. Thanks you very much all, and God bless you. By Chier Akueny Anyithiec, student of Agriculture economics at Bishop Stuart University, Uganda. Regret: [email protected] COMMENTS, PLEASE CLICK HERE Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author(s) and do not represent those of the website. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
