PHOTO CAPTION: Equity Bank has thousands of agency outlets offering services such as account opening; cash deposits and withdrawals; NHIF registrations and bill payments.
Equity Bank agents have raised concerns over the massive decline of the once flourishing business venture.
They accuse the bank’s management in Nairobi of unfairly neglecting thousands of its affiliates across the country despite the special service providers playing a major role in handling a huge chunk of their clientele on the ground.
Writing to this blog on Friday, August 5, one agent claimed that the giant financial institution no longer bothers to service or replace broken Point of Sale (POS) machines.
Some have been faulty for over 5 years, with the bank providing no immediate remedy for the disturbing predicament.
All they get are empty promises from the bank’s senior managers.
“Hi, Nyakundi,
Please hide my identity.
Equity agents are suffering a lot and silently.
The bank as big as it is, a bank which claims agency business is providing more than 80% of its services, has not been giving out POS machines for new agents nor replacing the damaged ones for existing agents.
This is now for about 4 to 5 years.
Many of the agents have now closed down their businesses as there is no way one can continue paying rent for a business that is not in existence nor remain jobless while your source of income has been stopped with promises that are not likely to be met through empty promises.
Thanks, and please, hide my identity,” the source writes.
In order to provide customers with easier access, the bank has contracted over 42,000 third-party entities to extend banking services regulated by Central Bank.
They range from retail outlets, corporates in malls and buildings and postal outlets, which are vetted and accredited by the bank across the region.
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