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My thoughts on customs at JKIA Nairobi & MIA Mombasa.
First things first , tourism arrivals is on the rise and great growth as we head to the end of 2023. As we start a new month November it also means winter officially kicks in Europe.
Kenyas tourism is segmented by season and by reason to visit. July to Sept is the pick safari season fuelled by migration in the Mara while October through to Easter is the winter numbers heading to Kenya coast for some warmth and in the process take a safari to Tsavo / Amboseli and may be Mara as well.
The queues at customs at JKIA is getting longer and more tedious. I have shared the image where each and every single passenger is lining up and bags are being opened ostensibly to search for taxable items.
I wish to comment as follows :
โ ๏ธ1. An average bag will weigh 23 Kgs in the past 32 but these days 23 kgs. Now you tell me how much can you stash in 23kgs bag?
A tourist coming to stay for 10 or 14 days will pack nothing less than 20kgs and most of the items would be personal clothing. They will of course also be carrying a camera and many these days also carry a laptop so that they can also continue working . They spare an hour or so to link up with their businesses etc.
โ ๏ธ2. We also have students who will also have a phone and also a laptop. We see them in online classes a few hours a day during their holiday with their parents.
Now as long as these items are already in use why would anyone be made to qurue to explain themselves besides a traveller is NOT carrying 5 laptop or 5 tablets. These days on everage any traveller would easily have 3 or 4 gadget
๐A laptop
๐A tablet
๐2 phones . One will take local Sim card
๐Camera
๐Playstation for young ones
โ ๏ธ3. Returning Kenyans esp Kenyans who are in the diaspora suffer the most. What the customs officer doesn't know is that these Kenyans in the diaspora have kept our economy going . Their remittance beats tourism, flowers and tea hands down. If anything Kenyans in the diaspora ought to be given red carpet welcome. It pained me a great deal when an agent told me how his client a Kenyan lady from USA had serious trouble with her wedding dress. The young lady even regretted why she bothered to bring her wedding to Kenya if this was going to be the welcome.
Way forward.๐ค
I appreciate there is pressure to collect more revenues but I challenge customs to tell us how much they collected in 2022? What about 2023? The negative vibes via a vis the collection is just not the move.
Goverment officials travel the most be it to Europe, Dubai and even to other African countries. There is clear green ( nothing to declare) and Red ( goods to declare) gate. They use technology and most airports globally are not searching your bags to see how many new inner wear you bought but they are more keen on drugs , gold , ivory etc . They are chasing the bigger picture.
These custom queues is not helping us and its a horrible welcome . Returning Kenyans dread that welcome. Why would anyone be made to feel like that coming back home .
Media obviously will not show you this kind of outright hooliganism
Instead, they will hide in the skirt of respect the constitution, freedom to picket, and joint editorials that avoid the real issues.
The one-sided coverage that shows violence and ignores the fact that Most of Kenya was calm will not succeed. It has failed before, and it will fail again.
Protesters vandalized Pramukh supermarket Nyamasaria Kisumu - such a setback to the owners and those employed there.
But obviously, the media did not see this one. They were too busy covering the closed gates of Mama Ngina home in Muthaiga. of outright hooliganism
Instead, they will hide in the skirt of respect the constitution, freedom to picket, and joint editorials that avoid the real issues.
The one-sided coverage that shows violence and ignores the fact that most of Kenya was calm will not succeed. It has failed before, and it will fail again.
Protesters vandalized Pramukh supermarket Nyamasaria Kisumu - such a setback to the owners and those employed there.
But obviously, the media did not see this one. They were too busy covering the closed gates of Mama Ngina home in Muthaiga.
Even the President alikubali "skits" zinalipa Njugush pesa poa kushinda salary yake...There's a whole society of young creatives looking up to you. NEVER GIVE UP!! #Njugush
DEAR MEN,
If you are married, and your wife goes to the gym but you don't, I have to tell you something. At the end of the gym session, there is something some gyms call "warm down", while others simply call it "stretch".
Your wife will lie on the ground facing up, her arms spread in surrender, while the gym instructor stands between her legs.
He will then take one of her legs and streeeeeeetch it to the extreme end until she unleashes some sound that I can guarantee you has nothing to do with pain. He will then do the same to the other leg.
He will proceed to hold various parts of her anatomy and push and pull them widely like he paid dowry for her.
Then he will grab both legs together and push them towards her head, making her have this pose taken straight out of Satan's adultery guidebook.
She will make that sound again!
You need to see what these women wear to the gym to understand this pose.
The institution of marriage is being burnt alive in these gyms.
When done, in a voice your wife has never used when talking to you, she will say goodbye to him and assure him that "kesho tutafanya ile ingine". She will have a genuine smile and his fisi enzymes will be at their most aggressive.
As an elder, I must warn you that gym instructors are replacing us!
We either go to the gym with these ladies or ban gym visits altogether.
Don't say the servant of the Lord didn't warn you! #MasculinitySaturday
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 (1) of the Public Holidays Act, I declare Friday, 21st April, 2023, shall be a public holiday to mark Idd-ul-Fitr.
@perupaul @KCBGroup@KCBCare @perupaul, that's it! Honestly speaking, they must have detected this very early coz other colleagues banking with @KCBGroup reported the same delays. The least they should have done is just communicate. But it appears that's none of their business.
@perujamezy@KCBGroup@KCBCare What is going on with your systems? If you are unable to process a transaction, you should return it to the sender rather than providing customers with vague explanations.