Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has ordered the deportation of Chinese citizens operating businesses in Gikomba market and other parts of Nairobi.
Speaking during the launch of a new immigration center in Nakuru on Wednesday, Matiang’i said the foreigners were illegally engaging in local trading.
“It is illegal for foreigners to engage in local trading in Kenya. We do not have a classification of foreign traders coming to Kenya to do hawking or local trading.”
“We will escort them to the airport, bid them bye and ensure they have their dinner at their countries by tomorrow evening,” Matiang’i declared.
The order comes a day after the Business Daily published an article on how Chinese nationals had taken over businesses in Gikomba, including trading in second-hand clothes popularly known as Mitumba.
Local traders have been lamenting the influx of Chinese nationals who have taken advantage of their financial muscle to control the supply chain from import to wholesale and down to the retail level.
Matiang for President….
Matiang for President….
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First of all how did these…
First of all how did these Chinese come into the country? If they are investors then they have a business working permit that they are using to go to sell mitumbas at Gikomba. Who gave them those permits? This is cover up of government mistakes in issuing resident permits to the Chinese.
First things first. Charge…
First things first. Charge them in court, sieze their business, jail them. Then deport them. Unatucheza tu! How about you also find out who gave them work permits and business permits. Unatuchukua sisi wajinga. We did not employ you to let criminals get way!
Relax boss. Tosheka
Relax boss. Tosheka
As an immigrant in another…
As an immigrant in another country, living, thriving and working among the natives, I feel somewhat hypocritical when I criticize others doing the same in my country of origin. Sote twatafuta riziki. Bora jasho. For that, I salute them. HESHIMA.
I will disagree on this one…
I will disagree on this one because I know my path to US citizenship was nothing but rosy and certainly it was not through selling second hand clothing in Walmart or nilly willy walking in and set shop and I know that was true for my sibling in UK. Maybe your path was easy , but I certainly know so many people whose path in US or elsewhere was nothing on what we are seeing with the Chinese . My 2cts
Matiangi: Wachina hawa…
Matiangi: Wachina hawa waliingiaingiaje nchini? Walikuja kwa “Visa” gani? N nani aliyewaruhusu kuingia nchini?
Nakuomba uanze kufanya kazi yako kama ipasavyo!
FG2, that’s exactly my point…
FG2, that’s exactly my point…most of us kulad lami just this guys are. Today, they sell maize, mitumba.. next, they climb up the social ladder. My journey and most of those I know are similar…tarmac, clean, etc.. before those papers hit the door mat and by then you face the same threat these guys are facing (deportation). We! I relate and up to today, you will hear someone spit some nasty thing like “go home where you came from”. As long as they are not stealing food off someone’s plate or selling drugs, then I have respect and that goes on for anyone who dares to venture out. I know how it feels for people to say: these foreigners steal our jobs, take our houses, drain our medical resources…etc… whilst all the time sitting on their laurels stating each job that comes their way is beneath them!
ONDOA hii GHASIA
ONDOA hii GHASIA
@Ken Motley….GHASIA? Well,…
@Ken Motley….GHASIA? Well, that’s makes any of your brothers, sisters, friends or any of countrymen who has gone abroad to look for greener pastures equally GHASIAS in the countries they have migrated to. If your government was not so corrupt and invest and harvest in local skills, we would not be hating this way. The leaders we elect opt to out source services and in doing so attract what comes with it. If we are looking for blame, then it’s squarely with the government. These are just as victims of circumstances as our people without jobs. C’mon now, don’t hate like that.
@Ken Motley
Jamani, kutumia…
@Ken Motley
Jamani, kutumia maneno uliyotumia juu ya Wachina ni makosa. Ningependa ujue Wachina hawa walitumia “ufisadi” kuingia nchini. Kama hakungekuwa na ufisadi, wasingekuwa Kenya wakiuza “mitura” na mahindi choma.
They need to be sent back…
They need to be sent back.How dare they compete with the locals.Ati selling maize kwenda uko my ancestors are turning in their graves.Now even the low paying jobs are not available to Kenyans just like the way the dirty Somalis took over Eastleigh and South C apana enough is enough .Tafadhali Matiangi wahamishe mara mmoja sitaki niwakute shags ama reserve maybe we need to go back to protecting our local industries and these thing of selling land to the highest bidder needs to stop unaichia wajukuu shamba ama madeni ya wachina
What brought them to Kenya…
What brought them to Kenya in the first place? If they came to do the Gikomba business then they should remain to do their business. And if they are undocumented immigrants then Matiangi’s decision is the solution.
The Chinese being hawkers or…
The Chinese being hawkers or selling mtumba should not alarm you. Worry about the Kenyan debt to the Chinese govt. Does Kenya still own the port of Mombasa? Have you been to Guangzhou, China and heard people speaking kikuyu in the market place selling Chinese goods? Let the small people eat, it is the leardership mafisi you need to worry about – my 2 cts.
Hear, hear! Well said, sis…
Hear, hear! Well said, sis Helen.
Wachingo waende huko kwao!
Wachingo waende huko kwao!