BAOBAB BEACH RESORT AND SPA HOTEL DIANI , ACCUSED OF BEING RACIST

BAOBAB BEACH RESORT AND SPA HOTEL DIANI , ACCUSED OF BEING RACIST

By Chris Ojow

The High Court was informed by the

Plaintiff that a Hotel based at Diani

Kwale County Kenya , Baobab beach resort

and spa discriminated Africans, by

allegedly being racists and only

allowing white skin people to access the

hotel and embarrassingly blocking

respectable Kenyans to enjoy the

services of the hotel , despite being a

public place and not a private members

Club .

While testifying before Justice Antony

Mrima , the victim Dancan Muriuki a

member of the International body that is

task to solve the problems in Tourism

sector and appointed the Government of

Kenya , stressed to the Court that

during his visit to the hotel to pick

two tourists from Europe , the

management exposed his image as a

person who is a fraudster ,

untrustworthy and ridiculed him not only

before his guests but also to the

entire hotel subordinate staff including

the Private security officers . Unaware

of his status in the Country as the

Country Tourism Ambassador.

The spokesperson of Kenya Tourism

Federation couldn’t believe that in this

day and age , several Beach Hotels

within the Coastal Regions in Kenya ,

prevented Kenyans Citizens who are

promoting local tourism to enjoy the

services which they the hotel

advertised within the Country local

media stations and exclusively allowed

white people .

The witness in his Chief evidence

testifying in the first day of hearing

of his application filed ten years ago ,

stressed that hotels at the Coastal

Regions were discriminating Kenyans

based on colour .

Muriuki is the Managing Director of

Destination Africa DMC Limited , and

embroiled in a legal battle with the

hotel , baobab beach resort and spa ,

following a business disagreement ,

misunderstanding , favouritism,

discrimination and racism .

He is seeking after filing a suit before

the High Court at Milimani Nairobi

County Kenya, for the Judge to order

the said hotel management to publicly

apologise to him for destroying his

reputation by placing an advertisement

in the Country local media stations to

apologise for maliciously defaming his

image and his company , his family

undergoing trauma and a compensation for

the loss of his business, after an

ugly encounter with the people he

described as arrogant incompetent hotel

managers within the Tourism sector .

The Plaintiff painfuly narrated to the

Court that the said managers never knew

his status, position and influence in

the Country and Globally within the

Tourism sector , until they got a clue

and hurriedly decided to write him a

letter apologising , but he was never

satisfied with the procedure of the

remorsefulnes by the hotel management ,

whereby he instructed his lawyer Nderitu

to file a suit before court seeking

for compensation and proper apology

through an advertisement in the Country

local media stations.

Muriuki received an award from then the

former President Mwai Kibaki for his

aggressive efforts to market Kenya

Globally as Tourism Ambassador appointed

by Kenya Tourism Ministry , that was

after 2007-08 post poll chaos where the

Country Tourism sector was badly

affected by the post election violence.