{{Rwanda and Uganda business communities are demanding compensation from the Kenyan Government of damage caused following the 2008 Post Election related violence.}}<\/p>\n
The two landlocked countries are demanding about Frw1.6 Billion as compensation for the destruction of their trucks and goods along the Northern Corridor (Nairobi-Eldoret-Kampala highway).<\/p>\n
They argue that it is four years since Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki promised to compensate them in a meeting held in January at Harambee House. <\/p>\n
The matter is threatening to disrupt harmonious relations between Kenya and the two greatest trade partners of Uganda and Rwanda, according to Kenyan Standard.<\/p>\n
Kampala City Traders Association (Kacita) and Rwanda\u2019s Federation of East African Freight Forwarders Associations (FEAFFA) have raised concern over the issue. Ugandan business community is planning to hold a peaceful demonstration in Kampala if the matter is not resolved by end of this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe express concern and fear that our people lost properties during the 2008 election violence in Kenya. It is part of this concern that Ugandan traders are now planning to divert their goods through the Dar es Salaam port for fear of election violence next year,\u201d Kacita spokesman Issa Sekitto, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want assurance from the Kenyan Government in the form of a compensatory note that the traders will be compensated by end of this month failure to which we shall mobilise our members to demonstrate at the Kenyan High Commission offices in Kampala.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a letter written to President Kibaki and seen by the Standard, Rwanda\u2019s Federation of East African Freight Forwarders Associations (FEAFFA) want the President to intervene and have them compensated before next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour Excellency\u2019s kind attention is drawn to January 29th 2012 at Harambee House where you issued a directive to the Deputy Prime Minister and former minister of Finance Uhuru Kenyatta and Minister of East Africa Community affairs Musa Sirma to settle the claims of the traders affected by the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya,\u201d Bosco Rusagara, the then president of FEAFFA writes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are issued a two-week deadline to put closure to the long standing saga. The minutes of that meeting were considered and a resolution to the effect passed.\u201d<\/p>\n
But East African Community Minister Musa Sirma said the matter is being looked into and assured the private sectors of both Uganda and Rwanda of an amicable resolution to the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government under the then Trade Minister Chirau Mwakwere formed a committee which was later handed over to the Permanent Secretaries. The PS\u2019 in turn are expected to prepare a cabinet memo for discussion and action. The matter is expected to be brought before the cabinet for a solution,\u201d Sirma explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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