A Chinese restaurant in the Kenyan capital
Nairobi has been shut down and its
owners summoned by authorities after it
emerged it was barring black patrons,
reports said Wednesday.
The restaurant fell into the spotlight of city
authorities after furious residents took to
social media to denounce an apparently
racist policy of not allowing African patrons
to eat there after 5pm.
The owners of the restaurant said the
measure had been put in place following a
robbery in 2013, and have apologised for
causing any offence, the Daily Nation
reported.
But it said the Chongqing Chinese
restaurant, situated in Nairobi’s bustling
commercial and residential district of
Kilimani, had been shut down anyway for
not having the proper licences.
“We have established that the restaurant
did not have the licences and I have have
ordered it closed until the management
complies,” Nairobi governor Evans Kidero
was quoted as saying.
He also said that “all business and service
providers must ensure that all customers
and clients are treated with respect and
dignity, irrespective of race colour, sex,
tribe and religion,” the Standard
newspaper quoted him as saying.
Reports said the restaurant’s Chinese
owners and managers had also been
summoned by Kenya’s immigration
authorities.
A city official however told the Star
newspaper that the incident “has nothing
to do with the friendship and diplomatic
relations Kenya enjoys with China,” a
major investor in east Africa’s biggest
economy.
Credit: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/no-blacks-chinese-restaurant-shut-down-in-kenya/

To top it up, the owner is an illegal immigrant!