Chinese Restaurant In Kenya That Discriminates Against Blacks Shut Down

A Chinese restaurant in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has been
shut down and its owners summoned by authorities after it emerged it was
barring black patrons, reports said Wednesday.

The restaurant became the focus of city authorities after
furious residents took to social media to denounce an apparently racist policy
of not allowing African patrons to eat there after 5pm — pushing
#RacistRestaurant, #NoBlacksHere and #TheChineseInvasion to be top trending
topics.

The owners of the restaurant said the measure had been put
in place following a robbery in 2013, and have apologised for causing any
offence.

But it said the Chongquing Chinese restaurant, situated in
Nairobi’s bustling commercial and residential district of Kilimani, had been
shut down anyway for not having the proper licences.

“We have established that the restaurant did not have
the licences and I have ordered it closed until the management complies,”
Nairobi governor Evans Kidero said in a statement.

“The owners of the restaurant have no change of user
from residential to commercial which is a requirement to operate a business in
Nairobi,” he said, adding the restaurant did not have a valid liquor
licence and had failed to comply public health requirements on food handling.

“As of now the restaurant will remain closed until they
comply with all set rules and regulations. We have deployed security officers
around the premises.”

The governor also asserted that “all business and
service providers must ensure that all customers and clients are treated with
respect and dignity, irrespective of race, colour, sex, tribe and
religion,” the Standard newspaper quoted him as saying.

Reports said the restaurant’s Chinese owners and managers
had also been summoned by Kenya’s immigration authorities, while one Kenyan MP
has also asked the Parliamentary Committee on Security to carry out its own
investigation.

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