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AFP journalist arrested for taking pictures inside president Uhuru’s Brookside Dairy (Photos)

Posted on by Martin Oduor

Brookside Dairy  is among companies blacklisted by National Resistance Movement (NRM). Nasa instructed its followers to boycott services and products from listed companies that support Jubilee.

On Saturday November 4th Agence France-Press (AFP) was arrested for taking pictures inside Brookside company. Yasuyoshi Chiba was arrested by officers from Ruiru Police station for trespassing.

The foreign journalist was taking photos of the milk processor without permission from the management. Chiba, who is a Japanese citizen, was however released on a Kes 10,000 police bail.

Chiba taken to court

The AFP journalist was on Monday November 6th produced before Kiambu Senior Principal Magistrate Stella Atambo.

Yasuyoshi Chiba

The charging of Mr. Chiba was deferred by the Kiambu Court after his lawyer raised concerns that the charge sheet was defective. Lawyer Harun Ndubi who was appearing for the AFP journalist requested the court to defer the charge in order the anomaly in the charge sheet can be rectified.

The court also accepted lawyer’s request but also demanded that that the suspect deposit his passport in the court saying he was a flight risk

 

President Magufuli bans Uhuru Kenyatta’s Brookside Dairy from operating in Tanzania

Posted on by Martin Oduor

Brookside Dairy has been blocked from accessing the Tanzanian market a week after Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed with her Tanzanian counterpart struck a deal to lift trade restrictions between the two countries.

On April 24th, Kenya’s Petroleum Principal Secretary Andrew Kamau announced the ban on gas imports through Tanzania in a bid to eliminate illegal cooking gas filling plants that posed safety and security risks. The PS also imposed a ban on importation of wheat from Tanzania.

Tanzania immediately retaliated by imposing restrictions on milk and milk products and cigarettes manufactured in Kenya.

Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed with her Tanzanian counterpart Augustine Mahiga held talks in Nairobi last week where a deal lifting restrictions was brokered.

Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed with her Tanzanian counterpart Augustine Mahiga hold talks in Nairobi

But Tanzania made a U-turn a day ago and banned 20 Kenyan companies from accessing the Tanzanian market. The Standard reports that President Uhuru’s Brookside Dairy is among companies that have been slapped with the restriction.

Other companies affected by the trade ban include another milk processor New KCC, cigarette manufacturer BAT, all the cement makers, Bidco Oil Refineries and Vivo Llubricants which markets Shell lubricant brands.

President Uhuru with his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli

Hostilities between the two countries have been the order of the day ever since Kenya lost bid to Tanzania to construct Uganda pipeline through its land.

With the new restrictions, Kenya stands to lose more since it exports more to Tanzania compared to Tanzania’s export to Kenya.