Foroyaa has been informed about the closure of Forex Bureaux in the Kanifing Municipality on Sunday,27 July 2013 and the subsequent arrest and detention of staff which was reported. Yesterday, Tuesday,30 July, this reporter visited several Forex Bureaux at different places to confirm whether they are still being closed, but found out that they are open. Speaking to a staff of Heewal Bureau de Change at Churchill Town, it was revealed that it was between 9am and 10am on Saturday when he received a phone call from their headoffice at 27 Kairaba Avenue asking him to close the bureau. He said on the following day, Sunday, he was again called by headoffice to open the bureau.

"For us, no one came to ask me to close the bureau," he said. A proprietor of a bureau de change at Westfield said his staff was arrested on Saturday,27 July 2013 between 1pm and 2pm. He explained that some people came to his bureau with a Dollar bill and asked his staff how much they are changing it for the Dalasi. He said when the staff told him that the Dollar is changed at D38, three men entered and without showing their identities, started searching the boxes containing a lot of cash in them.

They took the boxes and asked the staff to close the place and accompany them. He said when he went to where they took him at the NDEA in Kanifing, he was told by some people he met there that his staff was not in their custody. He said his staff was later taken by the NDEA to Remand where he has already visited him. Another bureau de change owner at the Serekunda market area said his outlet was not closed because he has registered.