Matu Mugo, Assistant Director of the Bank Supervision Department at the CBK, said it was not supplied with a copy of the intelligence that allegedly linked Muhuri to terrorism. The official testified in the case in which the rights organisation and its board chairman Khelef Khalifa sued the attorney-general, inspector-general of police, the CBK and the FRC. This, it says, exposed its officers to public odium and injury of character as they were portrayed as persons who support terrorism and terror organisation in the region. STIGMAHuman rights activist Maina Kiai told the court that the gazetting of Muhuri as an organisation that supports terror group Al-Shabaab negatively affected his interactions with people and their perceptions about him. “When we finally won the case and the accounts were unfrozen, the problem of transferring money to my daughter ended.

Source: Daily Nation December 17, 2018 15:56 UTC