I have always been someone who trusts friends completely, ready to go to great lengths for them, but last year taught me not to place blind trust in anyone. I work as an accountant for an NGO in Nairobi. John, my former colleague and senior in the Accounts department, earned Ksh 600,000 per month.
In August last year, he came to me asking if I could act as a guarantor for a loan he wanted to secure from a SACCO. Trusting him because of his position and experience, I agreed to guarantee Ksh 800,000.
On top of that, he said he had an urgent problem he needed to resolve and requested Ksh 400,000, which I promptly transferred to his account.
Little did I know, John was planning to quit the organization. A month later, when the SACCO loan was approved, he disappeared. For three days, he was nowhere to be found, and when I..TO READ MORE, TAP HERE
