Kenya is a mafia state, the mafia-run everything.
It is little wonder then that the Kenya Bankers Association recently signed a collective Bargaining Agreement with illegal officeholders at the Banking Insurance and Finance Union (BIFU) to increase bankers salaries by 4 per cent for 2020 and 3 per cent for 2021.
BIFU which is led by Secretary-General for life Isaiah Kubai doesn’t have branch offices, functional constitution, elected members to choose managers.
Most of the things are on paper but not on the ground.
BIFU has survived on forgeries to stay afloat and this is thanks to the Registrar of Trade Unions Elizabeth Gicheha’s impunity.
Elections are held without delegates, BIFU doesn’t have a members list but rakes in about SH6 million per month from financial industry workers signed to it.
The workers drawn from banks, insurance firms, KRA, cooperatives, microfinance institutions, NSSF, NHIF etc have however not been silent on the illegalities.
Three representatives Secretary-General Duncan Muthusi, Deputy Secretary-General Gabriel Okomo and Organizing Secretary Alphonce Were; were elected to office in 2016 but Kubai clung to power shielded by the Elizabeth Gicheha.
In February 2021, BIFU allegedly held elections in which Kubai was re-elected.
The DCI forensics looked at the report and found evidence of embezzlement of funds, in which they asked Kubai to shed more light by supplying them with more documents such as bank statements, payroll etc. Kubai was cornered. He had evaded court, and was in contempt of it, and here he was supposed to supply documents to aid in further investigations concerning the Union’s finances. Shock on the seekers of Justice as the investigations abruptly ended after a large sum of money was withdrawn from BIFU accounts from Standard Chartered Bank of Kenya.
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Lied to court
The elections require that delegates vote for officeholders, but Kubai doesn’t need any. He has led the union since 1987 and has been voting himself to office, illegally appointing other officeholders such as treasurer, and organizing secretary. This is against the Union’s constitution.
In 2019, he was put to task to reveal Copies of the audited accounts of BIFU for the last five (5) years, the Register of Members for both National and Branches, the list of Branch Officials, the Minutes of the Annual Delegates Conference for the last five (5) years and notices convening those conferences and the details of the physical branch offices.
He supplied the court with forgeries as per documents seen by Kenyan Business Feed.
One physical lie that stands out is that BIFU has branches at the Coast, Western Kenya and Central Kenya. If one visits those areas they would find none.
But the court allowed this.
In the 2021 elections, Isaiah Kubai used the services of Kenya Police to muzzle opponents. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations was compromised to manipulate a case of embezzlement of funds against Kubai.
Kubai rules by threats and siding with banks and financial industry firms to fire staff through flimsy reasons.
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