A court has declined to lift the suspension of operations on bus companies whose licenses and insurance covers had been banned over terror allegations.
The four companies had moved to court, suing various bodies and to have the ban revoked citing huge losses incurred.
Sabrin Bus Services Limited has sued the Interior Principal Secretary and Central Bank of Kenya over cancellation of its license and freezing of accounts.
The other three, G Coach, E Coach and City to City companies had sued the Insurance Regulatory Authority, its CEO Sammy Makove and Invesco Insurance over withdrawal of insurance.
The four companies were part of the organizations whose accounts had been frozen by the government in a crackdown on suspected Al Shabaab sympathizers, following Garissa University College attack which left 148 people dead.
In that week, Kenya suspended the licenses of 13 Somali remittance firms and froze accounts of dozens of individuals, NGOs and travel companies.
According to The Nation, the four Nairobi-North Eastern travel companies said that more than 63 of their buses have been grounded for more than a month, cutting off their only source of income.
They accused the government of having targeted them based on their ethnic and religious beliefs.
Justice Weldon Korir however upheld the ban, on grounds that the issuance of such orders at this point would frustrate investigations.
