Politicians angling for elective posts in last year’s General Election pushed up the number of customers querying their loan repayment compliance status from credit reference bureaus (CRBs) by 56 per cent.
Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) data shows that the number of customers who visited Transunion, Metropol and Creditinfo -- the only three licensed aggregators of consumer credit history -- grew from 84,412 in 2016 to 131,587 in 2017.
