Tanzania wants Kenya to pay Sh2.3 billion Uchumi Supermarket debt

Stranded workers outside Uchumi Supermarket Kisii town branch after it was closed in March 2016. The retailer had shut its Tanzanian and Ugandan subsidiaries a year earlier. [File, Standard]

The frosty trade relations between Kenya and Tanzania could get worse after the latter demanded payment of a Sh2.3 billion debt owed by Uchumi Supermarket.

Tanzania wants the Kenyan Government to take responsibility for the debt to its suppliers racked up by the struggling retailer’s Tanzanian subsidiary that was shut in 2015.