Word reaching this press indicates that our Mr Yani envisions himself the next Managing Director (MD) of Rokel Commercial Bank.
Given his alleged history at the bank, including his boast that he is the wealthiest banker at the bank, which possibly makes him the wealthiest banker in the Sierra Leone banking fraternity, concerned clients of the bank and executives of other financial institutions have advised that the Rokel Commercial Bank faces a serious reputational risk if someone like our Mr Yani, with his colourful history at the bank, is appointed by president Bio to head the nation’s leading commercial bank.
With Mr Yani as the head of Rokel Commercial Bank, the bank, they advised, should not expect to progress beyond where the current MD would have left off.
It is no secret that Dr Gilpin has set the bar very high for his successors.
But, who is Mr Yani? For those who might be reading this submission on Mr Yani at Rokel Commercial Bank for the first time, a bit of a refresher is in order.
In last week’s first two submissions on Mr Yani at RCBank, this medium was made privy to the activities of a certain bank executive named Mr Yani, whose name finds its etymology in the word yarn, which in our colloquialism refers to someone who can sweet-talk his way into the hearts of women by ‘spinning yarns.’
When a man approaches a woman he likes, he would ‘yarn’ that woman by saying all the right things.
Unfortunately for the women at Rokel Commercial Bank who weren’t respectfully yarned, our Mr Yani instead sexually harassed them, would pinch or smack their behinds, whispering in their ears that he would like to find out which members of the female staff have had their clitoris removed, obviously referring to those women who went through the customary or traditional practice of the Bondo Society.
It was alleged by the women and some concerned men from RCBank that descended on Nightwatch with this story that it is an open secret at the bank that Mr Yani was caught in a compromising position for being complicit in stealing fuel or petrol meant for the bank’s day-to-day operations.
In a society and city where power cuts are so frequent, it was a shock to the bank’s staff that although Mr Yani was discovered or caught red handed for stealing fuel, he was never fired.
The concerned RCBank employees questioned whether the moment he was caught was the only time he was involved in such a racket, or had been a regular scam.
This reason for this speculation was that no sooner than he was forgiven by the bank’s ex-MD after Mr Yani had prostrated and begged for his job, he was emboldened to start boasting that he is the wealthiest banker at the bank.
With the RCBank being the leading commercial bank in the country, Mr Yani boasts extends to include all banks, hence he is the wealthiest banker in Sierra Leone, and not just at the RCBank.
To prove his boast, this press was informed that Mr Yani has built more than ten houses, some of them referred to as palatial.
This disclosure led the concerned RCBank staff, including some of the many women who say they are victims of Mr Yani’s sexual harassment, to ask how was Mr Yani able to build more than ten houses in a country where homelessness is a major social concern.
It was generally agreed that our Mr Yani could boast of such an accomplishment because of the tens or hundreds of millions, if not billions of Leones, he and his fuel stealing syndicate was able to amass by diverting bowsers full of fuel for their personal gain way before he was caught.
The allegation is that stealing a bowser full of fuel is never a job for one person; it requires teamwork.
The RCBank staff members speculated that Mr Yani, long before he was exposed and caught with his hands in the cookie jar, was the head of a lucrative fuel stealing syndicate across the bank, not just at the main or head office bank.
Meanwhile, this medium has been informed that our Mr Yani, the very Mr Yani who was caught stealing a bowser of fuel, has his sights set on being the next MD of the Rokel Commercial Bank.
For someone with such a stained reputation at the bank to consider himself fit to head the bank is a cause for concern, according to the RCBank personnel some belonging to the bank’s executive.
Sources who spoke to Nightwatch who say they are concerned about the reputational damage the bank will suffer including the risk of losing the employees’ and current and future clients’ trust, are here calling on the President of the Republic, who appoints the bank’s MD, to consider an investigation into Mr Yani’s past at the bank before he ends up being the next managing director.
“I want you all to consider the audacity of this individual who, instead of staying in the shadows because no one in their right mind would trust him based on what we know about him, would consider himself fit and having all the morals and ethics that are being displayed by our current MD to actually think that he should be the bank’s next MD. This individual, who is in the bank’s executive, has made open threats against all those who are not cooperating with him, that he would make things difficult for them. We hope that the bank will not have to suffer the humiliation of being led by a known thief and routine serial sexual harasser of our female staff members,” said one of our sources from RCBank.