Kenya’s Payment Squeeze, The Suspected Fake-dollar haul in Eldoret, and a Financial Trust Test We Cannot Afford to Ig;
Published on: Thursday 20 August 2026
Sendwave and Wise have restricted services for many Kenyan users; Hurupay has frozen Kenya operations; and some PayPal users have faced suspensions. In the same news cycle, police opened two safes in Eldoret containing KSh2.615 million and US$259 million in dollar-denominated notes suspected to be fake. There is no evidence the cases are connected. But they collide at one dangerous point: trust.
