A Bill to amend the extant Bank Employees Act passed for a second reading. The proposed Bill will prohibit ownership of foreign accounts by bank workers.

The bill also entails that workers shall declare their assets and seeks to curtail transactional fraud perpetrated by bankers and similar cases.

Conversely, the provision that prohibits ownership of foreign accounts will not apply to the spouse of the workers and children under 18. The provision for spousal privilege has its legal roots in section 182(3) of the Evidence Act CAP E14, 2011. Section 183(2) posits that:
"Nothing in this section shall make a husband compellable to disclose any communication made to him by his wife during the marriage or a wife compellable to disclose any communication made to her by her husband during the marriage."
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