Equity Bank boss: I’m leaving Kenyan market growth to those I mentored

Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi

NAIROBI: About two months ago, on a hot sunny day in midtown Nairobi, the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) threw a party to see off the former Central Bank of Kenya governor, Njuguna Ndung’u. It was an epic event that drew the who’s who in Kenya’s banking sector.

But besides Prof Ndung’u, the chief executive of KBA, Habil Olaka, felt there was one other guest at the function whose ambitions, he said, had affected the lives of everybody at the party.