Banks and Bankers grow fat of these Oafs

Saving is one of the most valuable modern way civilised society of 21st Century are encouraged to do to prepare for the future of their young generation. Yes, it's paramount to save because that is how todays Community survive. Banks are the center of world saving destinations everyone yearn to have a portion marked in his or her name. That is the best option you can ever take to create a future that is bright for those who follows you. But, at some point, it has become a center of acquiring wealth and richesness to some who work in them. It may sounds rediculious to many people. Anyway, the question is: how is it a source of richesness to them?

While talking with a female bank manager, she made a scary revelation to me. She told me of how African and over sea bank vaults are filled with monies of dead men who kept their bank accounts secret from their wife and family members.

She explained it was against bank ethics or policies for an account officer to inform the relatives of a deceased customer of his account (without his permission). And since the man is dead, without giving his permission, the bank dubiously keeps silent about the money. She told me it is rampant among many businessmen and politicians.
She revealed many instances of dead men whose families are still suffering till today, and yet they have millions of money stashed in their secret accounts in the bank.

She recalled one that happened few months back. The man died and the wife was crying all over the place, looking for money to bury him. Whereas the man had nothing less than 60 million in his accounts. The banker said it got to a stage that she could no longer bear it, her conscience was pummelling her. She had to go against her bank rules, and got in contact with the widow and revealed to the woman how much her husband had in his accounts and how to claim them.

Another story was one man who escaped death, but his right hand got paralysed. He couldn't sign his chequebook with his left hand and he was in a desperate situation that needed him to sign papers and cheques. That was how he learnt his lesson the hard way. As soon as he got better, he immediately made his wife co-signatory to all his accounts and involved her in all his businesses. What if he had died? That was how his family would have suffered in the midst of plenty.

This stupid behaviour is not reserved for wealthy men alone, even paupers who earn little have their own complex issues.

I just read on the wall of a certain group where a man complained of how his friend refused to release his ATM pin number to his wife even though there was an emergency at home, and his ATM was at home.

Many orphans and widows suffering today are put in that condition by their stupid dead father.

Women and Retirees are not left out. Someone told me how a relative of hers died and none of her relatives knew that her properties were scattered all over the world. Not even one house. Not even a dime in any of her accounts. If you knew billions unclaimed in banks belong to selfish dead people, you would weep.

Please, do the needful now that you still have the breath to do so. Of course tomorrow is pregnant and only God knows what it will deliver.

A word is enough for the wise!

2019 YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE
Apwoyo, Ber, de nada, Marci, Miigwech!
Kenneth Rubangakene
Tw: @XrancisJr
Kampala, Uganda.