He is bringing rat eating antics to the financial Arena.
Pure day dreaming.

I can't believe it

So a police officer stops you and asks

Wapi kitambulisho?

Wapi PIN?

Wapi ATM card? Hauna ATM? Nyinyi ni ile wakora inafanya money laundering na kuuza madawa eeh? Kaa chini haraka, jambazi!!

While it's OK for govt to ensure that all of us are registered with KRA, it is over ambitious and unfair to imagine all Kenyans can and should have a bank account.

The minister is out of order!

mimi nikiitishwa bank account nawatolea simcard..

Even kenyans with incomes struggle to maintain one! Its always salary in and salary out most times.

Is this the best way to empower youth?
This is putting the cart before the horse.

Was this by any chance said on april 01st!!!

Otherwise Githae should be thinking of incentives to float to Kenyans to persuade those who don’t have Bank accounts to consider opening one.

Making it mandatory sounds impractical and could very well run into head winds with the constitution.

How many Banks accept to open A/Cs with zero balance!!

What is the geographical distribution of Banks around the country vis avis Kenyans dwellings!

There are charges/costs associated with operating a Bank a/c, that most ruralfolk would rather avoid.

Lack of/little infomation would see most chaps loose monies to Banks in all manner of charges/penalties.

Come off it Githae!

..What a rubbish idea, reminds me recently when Tesco (big UK supermarket chain) hired a consultant to find out why water melons above a certain size are not bought and you know what the good consultant came up with after an exhaustive research he found out there is a co-relation between melons and womens bust hence women avoiding BIGGER watermelons...now thats what i call RUBBISH!!! am sure even the butchery man in Kayole can come up with better findings..

huyu jamaaa alifikiria kweli.. must be a harvard graduate..

Will Turkana folk walk all the way to Kitale/Lodwar and back to open a zero balance account?

@Alma..exactly my point no relation!!

@Impunity .."It can be difficult to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it"

Maybe it's feasible. Imagine all the people registered on Mpesa and all the mobile money tranfers were linked to an interest earning account like what we have on Orange Money and everyone had a debit card. You could go to an agent or use the debit card at an ATM to get money or even do other things that the debit card allows you to -hence more convenience and that means alot of people will be in mainstream banking. Or someone came up with a system that would give the convenience of mobile money tranfer and is within the mainstream banking so people would be convinced to use it. Githae's dream will become a reality without actually forcing people to open accounts which would otherwise lay dormant.