A Nyamira County family is seeking the intervention of Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) to have one of its employees, Joseph Ngala Oseko, release money he mobilized for the burial of their mother, Yunia Bochaberi Oseko.
The family says Oseko has refused to release the money, which is estimated to be over KSh1.5 million, despite a court order directing him to do so.
The deceased’s eldest son, Patrick Ondieki Oseko, says his brother has been using all manner of unscrupulous means to prevent the burial, including blackmail, intimidation, and abuse of his position as a senior manager at KCB.
He says the family has now set the date for the burial of Yunia Bochaberi Oseko for June 9, 2023, and is hoping that Oseko will finally surrender the money.
“We have now set the date for my mother’s burial for 9th June 2023 with the hope that (my brother) Joseph Ngala Oseko will surrender the monies under his custody (and in compliance with the court orders dated 1st April 2021) but I am apprehensive that, going by his conduct and proven arrogant demeanor, he will not cooperate; hence my resolution to seek this intervention as one of the ways to have my mother’s remains finally interred for us to have closure over her demise,” reads part of the letter addressed to KCB CEO Paul Russo from Patrick Oseko.
The letter dated May 15 and copied to Safaricom and Banking Fraud Investigations Unit, among other institutions, further reads: “I am apprehensive about (my brother) Joseph Ngala Oseko as expressed herein based on how he has resorted to maligning and attacking everybody that has sought to have him surrender the said monies yet we cannot mobilize any other funds from well-wishers knowing too well that there had been money contributed for the same purpose which has not been spent.
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“My brother’s continued non-declaration and surrender of the monies that he received in the name of offsetting my mother’s funeral expenses amounts to obtaining money by false pretense which is a criminal offense for which he should be brought to justice.”
On April 1, 2021, Senior Resident Magistrate A. N. Ogonda, in MCC/E5211/2020, directed that the deceased be buried and that one of her sons – Joseph Ngala Oseko – the KCB bank manager uses the money he had collected through his MPESA number to offset all hospital and mortuary expenses.
However, the order has not been complied with.
Instead, Mama Yunia’s body has continued to lie at the Umash Funeral Home in the guise of a non-existent court injunction despite an earlier order against the interment following a suit filed by one of the deceased’s sons – Robert Kebaso Oseko, having been set aside by the April 2021 directive.
It is understood that Kebaso is a proxy litigant acting on instructions and bankrolling by Joseph Oseko, who works as a senior manager with KCB.
“All efforts to have my mother’s remains interred have been thwarted by (my brother) Joseph Ngala Oseko, who has used all manner of unscrupulous, krass means, including but not limited to, blackmail, intimidation and abuse of his position as a Senior Manager with Kenya Commercial Bank; a situation which is no longer tenable as my mother’s stay at Umash Funeral Home is a continuously traumatizing
ordeal.
“[…] My brother – Joseph Ngala Oseko, a Senior Manager with Kenya Commercial Bank, has a well-known history of litigation on family land matters by proxy.”
Lumumba is asking the Government of Kenya, KCB management, the Kenya Human Rights Commission, among others, to take up the matter and ensure the family gets justice against Ngala, who according to the family, views himself as invincible due to his privileged position as a bank manager.
The letter is also copied to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Kenya Bankers Association.
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