This was made worse by Uganda’s Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda Asians — and the political fate of the community looked like it had been sealed. COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS ACTIn 1968, the British Queen Elizabeth had made things worse for the Kenya Asians when she signed the Commonwealth Immigrants Act that was aimed at Asians left in Kenya after independence. They can go to India.”NOT GUARANTEED JOBSBut even the Asians who took the Kenyan citizenship were not guaranteed jobs within the civil service. Records show most of the Kenyan Asians had not gone into commerce by choice. The Transport Licensing Board became an avenue to control the restriction of Kenyan Asians into the sector forcing them out.

Source: Daily Nation April 29, 2017 21:45 UTC