Patrick Njoroge: If your bank is giving you lots of excuses on new rates, vote with your feet

A day before Chase Bank experienced a bank run, its customers waited for assurance from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) that all was well. It did not come.

CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge, whose appointment to the most important job in the financial sector had injected a lot of confidence, refused to comment on the social media reports that were fanning panic.