Uganda, Rwanda traders in renewed push for claims over post-poll chaos
Trucks at the Malaba border between Kenya and Uganda: The traders say that there is now an urgency over the matter because their financiers have started recovering loans that were used to purchase the goods and trucks. FILE PHOTO |
Traders from Uganda and Rwanda are putting pressure on Kenya to pay $47.5 million in reparations for business disruption during the post-election violence in 2008.
The East African Business Council has handed President Uhuru Kenyatta a petition over the delayed compensation for goods and trucks in transit that they say were destroyed during the mayhem that left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of others displaced.
