The Sunday Standard has a story on Daima Bank, which has been under statutory management by the CBK since March 2003.

Shareholders and depositors will meet on December 14th where they will be asked to accept a buyout of the institution or wind it up. The bank needs to be re-capitalized by 250 million shillings

Shareholders are being “pressured” to accept the offer on the table from First Africa Capital which they feel is too low i.e. to inject capital of 220 million shillings and pay depositors 25% of their money. (FAC is South Africa based company whose famous Kenyan face is Wanjiku Mugane) They will also take over 800m debts of the bank. Shareholders had rejected an earlier offer from First Africa to pay 22% of depositors.

The article further alleges that CBK blocked two offers from Fina Bank (to pay 25% of their deposits) and Capital Alliance (to pay 65% of deposits) Earlier, Mbeki Enterprises Incorporated (http://www.mbekiusa.com/) got cold feet and withdrew its offer to buy 49% of the bank for 250 million.