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The collapse of Chase Bank last month refreshed my memories of stories I heard during my childhood regarding the safety of customers’ deposits in a commercial bank.

In the 1970s while growing up in Garba Tula, a small dusty town in what was then Isiolo District, we heard stories about a local wealthy man who deposited his money with a multi-national bank.

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