Representatives of remittance companies that the Kenyan government closed last week met in Nairobi to decide a course of action to fight the closure.
the companies said they were unfairly targeted by the government without following or respecting the proper judicial processes beore taking such a drastic measure.
The companies, in effect, saw the Kenyan move as illlegal and extrajudicial as it linked the companies to the Garissa killing and Al Shebab without producing the least shred of evidence pointing to that direction.
As fully licensed forex companies, the companied showed great concern that they were ‘classifiedd together with suspected terrorists’.
The companies, at the end of their meeting, issued an emphatically phrased press statement presenting their point of view.
The Statement was as below.
