Barclays fires Johnson?

Staff Writer | Wednesday September 1, 2010 00:00

 

Sources say the bad news was delivered to him by senior bank officials from Dubai. Barclays Bank Botswana's head of corporate affairs, Esther Noriss, asked if it is true that Johnson was fired, she said she had no comment.'No comment'.

'Will you confirm if senior bank executives from Dubai are in Botswana?' Norris was asked.

'No comment,' was all Norris was prepared to say.

Bank employees insist that their boss was fired yesterday afternoon  after an impromptu meeting with the Dubai officials. Some say their boss was fired unceremoniously.

Lately, the bank has been embroiled in some seedy rumors about junior bank officials who are linked to a 'sex for promotion' scam. It is alleged that some official credit cards have been abused in the process.

So serious was the allegation that some senior investigators from the bank chapter in Zambia were called in to assist with the probe. During the course of the investigation the females at the centre of the allegation are said to have been transferred to other departments.

Two weeks ago the bank's board chairperson, Rizwan Desai, denied rumours that the managing director had been suspended.