Other African countries are beginning to feel the entrepreneurial power of Kenyans.
A recent report indicates that 53 Kenyans most of them dealing in second hand clothes and food stuffs, were caned and then deported in Southern Sudan. They were accused of working in Sudan without work permits. The incident came shortly after Sudanese businessmen started complaining of unfair competition from Kenyan entrepreneurs.
There are widespread reports of similar incidences from as far off as Johannesburg, South Africa where locals are feeling the heat of Kenyans in the commercial sector and are deeply resentful of them.
The funny thing is that there are scores of Sudanese and Somali businessmen doing business in Kenya without being harassed.
Here is one more reason why we need a new government that cares for it's citizens. The time has come to start defending our own wherever in the world they may be from injustices and bad treatment. Why should Kenyans be caned (even if they don't have work permits?) and nobody wants to say anything about it? Least of all our wazee hukumbuka government now desperate to cling to power.
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Chris I could not let this article pass without a comment.
ReplyDeleteI am sick and tired of the way Kenyans are mistreated in other countries and no government official does anything about it. For crying out loud, the government is meant to be for the people, a contract between individuals in a society to cede power and control to an organ for the common good. How dare those Sudanese cane our citizens, who do they think they are?
Another incident that makes me froth in the mouth was the death of this Kenyan trailer driver in Uganda some months back. A mishap between him and an army van resulted in him been kidnapped and murdered. His poor widow cried for help but nobody bothered. How?? Why?? This government has failed in its contract to protect its citizens within Kenyan and outside. Ambassadors should be summoned. And remember we have hosted so many foreigners in this country as refugees, including those Nubians.
I would beseech you Chris, as you keep on doing the splendid work of sensitizing our youth on leadership, please give us an article on how our fellow wananchi, in foreign lands are been forsaken by the inept, incompetent, clueless and utterly moronic idiots in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
We need to reclaim our dignity and assertiveness as a Nation.
An American sailor came and muredered a Kenyan prostitute (remember the Sandstrome case) and his government was prepared to do anything to make sure their son is not executed "by those savages".
ReplyDeleteKenya is currently hosting tens of thousands of nationals from other countries, but the minute any Kenyan tries to do a little trade somewhere the story of work permits and so on comes up. If I was in power the first thing I would have done is deport all Sudanese living in Kenya (telling them that they are lucky that I am not getting them caned).
We need to wake up as Kenyans and look after our own. It is the Sudanese who welcomed Kenyans to their country in the first place to help with re-construction.
http://coldtusker.blogspot.com/2006/08/kick-tanzania-out-of-eac.html
ReplyDeleteCheck mu blog out about the TZ locking out Kenyans...