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Activist Okiya Omtatah wants De La Rue banned from producing Kenya's new notes

A sample of Kenya's current bank notes (PHOTO: File)

NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenyans will have to wait longer to see the image of President Jomo Kenyatta struck off their money after High Court extended a freeze order on the currency printing tender.

The country which is in almost two and a half year breach of the August 2015 deadline to roll out the new currency notes as stipulated in the new Constitution had hoped to get the new currencies between April and June next year.

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