CBK to give audit on switch to new notes

Central Bank of Kenya Governor Patrick Njoroge holds the new notes during a recent media briefing. [File, Standard]

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will be under pressure to tell an eager nation whether it recovered all the 217 million pieces of the old Sh1,000 notes and netted a few crooks in the four-month demonetisation exercise.

This notwithstanding, Kenyans bade farewell to the elephant-embossed currency, which some proudly said had served them well in the last 25 years, but which quickly turned into a badge of dishonour to others.