Because if you read about the deal with FTSE it took months to be approved. And that deal mainly covered exchange of information through a secure portal and intergrating two software's... The deal that covers CMI in EAC is essentially a trading software, its not just front-end API, this software will have access to people's shares,trading's, the NSE and DSE will seize to exist .. A collapse of the FTSE at NSE would lead to disruption of normal trading's but peoples stocks would be secured, while a collapse/hacking/sabotage of the proposed EAC software has the potential to cripple the economy with a potential $25B dollar just disappearing from the economy.
And no, I have checked, the market cap for DSE by end of 2017 is $10B and not 15, and the biggest gainers in that year had a significant representation from kenyan companies.
And FYI Kenya did not refuse to merge our stock exchanges, Kenya has rejected the software until it can test it itself. And if you want to continue claiming that Kenya is Afraid then you can answer the next question of how a country supposedly 'afraid' of merging with DSE is looking to merge with Africa's biggest stock exchanges and possibly have the servers and HQ based in Nairobi... Does that look like a country that is afraid to you?
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