Reborn and flourishing: Creaky town gets life back

In the early 1990s, civil servants and other salaried staff who lived in Kilifi had to go to Mombasa every month end to get their salary. This was because the town, then at its infant stage, did not have financial institutions.

The Kenya Commercial Bank had a mobile unit that occasionally visited the town. Barclays Bank was the first to set up a permanent structure that has since become a landmark in the town. Other banks followed suit.