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President Kenyatta to stay on currency as tender war goes to hearing

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

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

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