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Dealing with credit card mess

By Jackson Okoth

Herman Oduor is a middle aged man working for a logistics firm in Nairobi. When he got an offer to sign up for a credit card from an aggressive sales person sent by a bank, Oduor took up the plastic cash with an agreement that the bank could recover the card debt in full from his salary account at the end of each month.

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