CS Murkomen, CS Mutua tour JKIA over complaints by travelers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- There was drama at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, as a section of passengers had their traveling items confiscated by Kenya Revenue Authority Customs Officials, over unpaid duty. KRA stated that the enhanced screening of luggage being experienced at the busy Airport is a result of an increase in Taxable items, that should ordinarily be subjected to duty
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Can you imagine coming to see your loved ones with empty hands😢it doesn’t make sense.
Bruh it's unafrican is what it is.
Madness ☹️🇬🇧
Kama sisi watu wa hammam
what a shame this is going to affect tourism.Our economy is sinking💔
All tourists should avoid Kenya at all costs,let that country economy sink so that people will start using brains when voting
Very true🤝🤝
Failure to follow all tax laws at point of entry will have the country sink even faster. If we have tax laws, then we will implement those laws to the letter. You cannot carry 5 new iPhones, and 5 new boxes of perfume and fail to pay taxes on them.
Very true n well said Wacha wanyoroshwe
I'm a kenyan, and I agree.
I may not step there anymore even though it's my country...but will go everywhere else
We're tired of this UDA government
This is like giving tourists and returning Kenyans an admission fees into our country. Worse still its unpredictable depending on the value of goods they carry. I can't believe overpaid people sat down in cabinet and came up with such a away to extort our people and tourists. Visitors by the way will still spend more money than that tax on hotels,tour guides,transport etc You chase them away you end up losing much more...
Yes they so desperate to collect taxes but touching on a very sensitive area, pple don’t get harassed in nearly all the airports of the word expect Kenya.
Hii watu wanaunjinga sana....we cant even buy gifits for our family when coming back homme..useless
The worst regime ever
Kindly stop justifying corruption that you customs/KRA have been doing for decades..
You even have the courage to tell the world how this has been happening for such a long time.
I think CS Morkomen and Mutua should as well stop their side shows at the JKIA and get to do their work effectively.
Just train new customs staffs at the KRA and get to show them what is expected of them to do at the JKIA and replace them with the one's doing all these corruption at the Airport.
I tend to believe that this corrupt guys at the JKIA have been in that same department for long just to master on how to extort this tourists.
Am not proposing for them to be sacked or terminated from their work, because I tend to believe that most of them even can't adjust to find for themselves out here by doing business coz they are used to getting quick and easy money by corrupting.
Just transfer them to other different departments in a different ministry not necessarily at KRA and let them fetch for their families but under close supervision.
@@nobertakoto7223I agree. You pay 1.2 million kenyan shillings for our children born abroad by (Kenyan parents) to apply for them and be issued with a kenyan citizenship !!
This is total mess by UDA government
This will cost This country heavily
Let it cost the Country, blame yourself for voting your shonde Zakayo.
It's already costing the country,
Tanzania is playing a very big and good role in handling this situation. Bravo.
Tourists now prefer other countries
Tanzania(wildlife and beaches)
Morrocco (beaches)
Namibia(sand dunes)
Rwanda (Gorillas)
Zambia/ zimbabwe(Victoria falls)
Egypt (pyramids)
Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Kenya (Tax)
My moms goods were detained by U.S customs. It's a thing.
As tourist never come or visit Kenya red flag it's helll😊😂😂
Tourist should avoid Kenya at all cost, this is becoming worse than before very corrupt and no one will withstand their over taxation, they can visit Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania and leave Kenya alone with their unending problems.
What is Mutua saying!!!! No one was scared of coming to this country in the past but this administration through KRA is scaring visitors and citizens residing abroad.
I don't think tourists are that desperate to visit Kenya. There are better options in Africa where one can enter without harassment
They have to stop this nonsense. Its too much now.
Everybody has a right to privacy and decency. How dare u deep your hands into someone's luggage like that. Disgusted!
Here in TANZANIA we're happy what's Kenya Government they're Harassing TOURIST Currently Now in Tanzania Tourist are Flocking in large numbers Hongera kenya Kwa kufukuza Watali
Failed government bure kabisa i miss uhuru😢
I was taxed 10k back in 2017 for being a Kenyan American carrying 4 suitcases , 2 for my personal effects and 2 for gifts for family that could not have costed me $500. Yet I could see other people walk by without being searched the way they searched my luggage. Those women are very jealous and biased. Even after one of the employees told me he will help me pass at a small fee. Didn't work! Taxes have to be paid but some of those employees take advantage of the tourists. Kenya has a lot of lessons to learn. When I came back to the USA, I declared all the goods I had and did not get taxed and welcomed back happily. My own Kenyan people harrassed me! Sad.
Also they can still your important thinks.kenya ni Mungu tu
They will keep losing tourists, they uganda and Tanzania kenya is inthe big mess
That’s where JKIA goes wrong, we don’t wanna come home because of these harassment, I have been harassed once and I can tell you it’s not a good experience 😢, why is it only in Kenya that your personal items have to be checked!!! no any other airports I have been through has checked my personal items. This issue has to be looked at, Kenyans are not happy l, the govt is too desperate to collect tax, let them find other proper avenues. Most people are scared to come to Kenya, even tourists who have been there before they don’t wanna go back
its funny when Americans return to their country they are welcomed with a big smile,kenyans on the other hand are treated like south sudanese or Somalis the jealousy that airport employees have is ridiculous. One of them was asking me where we are getting this foreign passport if i can hook him up get one😢😢
True,,,i agree with u,,they really have a jealousy
Haha, Africans in their own country are harassed.
They worth the whites more than their african citizens.
Hahaha that made me laugh
As a foreigner who travels to Kenya 6 times a year and lives there about half of the year my only issue with this is the limit and how is the value calculated and by who? There’s almost no country in the world that will let you bring in a bunch of valuable goods that can be sold for profit( key word CAN doesn’t matter your intentions ) without taxing you.
We're fucked up as a nation
Who's fault is that? The leaders? Or the people who give said leaders power?
@@itsTheTruthTellerThe latter.
If everyone takes 3 iphones, 20kgs of valuable items to kenya for family and friends and not pay tax, then KRA shouldn't be operating. Goods declaration and taxation is at every point of entry. You either do it the legal way or illegal way but you've got to pay for it and you will somehow.
The problem is when u have know idea of how to grow an economy and u you want to steal money from the unsuspecting travellers. This will cost Ruto the presidency
zakayo has a phd in botany yaani alisomea mimea. a dimwit knows nothing about economy
JKIA IS A MESS JUST AS NYAKO SAID!!!!!
Very true
Thats what happens when you give such jobs to the Rift valley night runners.
Facts 😂
A one term President 2027 anaenda akiendanga.
Very true
Kuna millions of fools from specific parts of this country that will sing "tano tena"
@@nuelnuelito8752 very true wale watu wa mchele na nyama.
@@nuelnuelito8752 Count this fool in
I support
Increased screening process at the airport will not raise funds to cushion the severe economical situation we are in
That KRA lady explaining is evry corrupt. She'd have taken a bribe for those iphones
Soon KRA staff will be owning new electronics and smelling expensively 😅
You can travel via UG. They allow one to bring five phones at most. Also, you can ship goods to there, and try get to Kenya by road. These are some of the reasons why even tourists will continue streaming to Tanzania, and in turn the economy will suffer and service providers will be disadvantaged too.
More wounds on a sinking Kenyan economy.I will always remind president William Ruto that economy is planned by economists not by politicians like Murkomen and Chirchir.
Reason is that KRA has not been strict in the past due to corruption
They are harassing passengers. Wait and see people will stop coming to Kenya
Strict on what?? Where did you see such things happening in the world??
If they have to, then they should do it in a professional manner. Not harassing passengers. What a shame 😏😏😏
@@erickmunge4758drugs like cocaine,ivory ,guns has been passing through the airport to be discovered later.I believe that there should be improvement in customer care.
Sometime back I traveled to USA through London Many Kenyans had packed perfumes,bottled stuff etc which they argued as being essential items.This is in breach of airport/aircraft security.On London New York flights these items were confiscated.People have not stopped traveling because of that.Many people have been doing bussiness of bringing items including cocaine which is not grown in this country due to Jkia airport
Every one share this widely,so that it can affect tourism.
A one way ticket for ruto to retire 2027
They just need to transfer that efficiency in dealing with corruption. Why are those officials not being tamed? Who's their boss?
Their boss is corrupted too
Guns in a luggage is a lie. Unless licensed. Guns are displayed to justify their obscene actions.
This a comedy,they want to show that collecting taxes is also saving the country from danger.
My thought too. How did they pass other airports to get to kenya???
Or may be the tourist were coming direct from Somalia 🇸🇴 or Syria 🇸🇾 or Palestine gaza🇵🇸 .
Does it mean majority of tourists come from war zone😂😂😂😂, enyewe Kenya ni ya ma cartoon
I know for a fact that KRA officials are very very corrupt at that airport. My luggage was marked X because I had 3 new laptops and 5 car cameras. A KRA official approached me and made a deal I couldn't refuse.
Corruption has always started with Mwanaichi ,the private sector etc who put pressure on public servants.That explains why money has not been coming in.The East African statutes established in 2004 has always put emphasis on this law which is being enforced more vigorously
How much did you pay?
@@ivyachola5210 $20
The reason KRA officials are doing this with so much gusto is because they benefit by taking people's stuff. I agree, they are a jealous lot and will not go far in life if they continue this way. I have travelled to Europe and at the airport upon arrival no one checks your luggage. The amount of tax that zakayo hopes to get from travellers is not even sufficient to build a proper cow shed. No government relies on taxing visitors at entry points for income, the amounts are minimal and simply not worth the the time.
Policy changes are always never well thought out. Things are done at a whim at the insistence of KRA without thinking through the unintended consequences
Coming home has been a problem....something like perfume, body cream you cant enter with it in kenya....we have no freedom in kenya....we pass with this thinks in all this countries yet home they pick from us....perfume imagine ....which effect does it have to the country?????
This is pure madness.....do you think people will continue coming to this country after what they are showing.....it's such a shame
Tourist please dont come to kenya
Tanzania hakuna UPUUZI huo ndio maana unaona Watalii wote wanakwenda Bongo
This is very sad, we send dollars home to support family and in return, that also helps the country with foreign exchange. When visiting home they start treating us like this !
75000 unalipia tax🤷🤷🤷 this is to show how Kenya is poor. Can you imagine telling an American that any item over $500 is taxable meaning hata Suruali yake ya ndani atalipia tax cos suruali ni $500 🤷🤷 surely Kenya inaelekea wapi .. why can't the president address this 🤷ama na yy Huwa akienda nje analipa tax hvo.... Better they put it $1000 hyo ni better kidogo but $500 zii ... Hiyo ni kuonyesha how we are poor to ... those who bring items to sell let them pay tax no problem but jameni simu yangu nakuja kutumia ati nalipia tax...eh Yawah
it will cease to be the buzziest airport in Africa soon.
It's not one of the busiest airports in Africa. It's far from that.
@@Mtu445exactly!
These guys have forever demanded bribes ata huyo mama is the worst criminal stop this nonsense and fire those women seen on camera they're well known for demanding bribes!!!
It's not a joke ask any traveller to Kenya who has come across those women on camera here and they will tell their story the CS's should start by sacking them they are real corruption criminals at immigration let them listen to complains of travellers about these women and act!!!!
Stop that nonsense tourists will never come
Last time i came to Kenya in April,i ONLY had my HANDLAGGUAGE to avoid all these STRESS!Maybe i need to talk to my TetuGals school and class mate (LILIAN NYAWANDA)!
I never understand Murkomen everytime he tries to explain something. Looks out of touch and very inexperienced
gugulagula he sounds like he swallowed a hot cashcrop potato from Nyandarua 😂😂😂😂... mimi na beba viatu hazifanani just 4 laughs! But hii ushenzi ikome.
What the hell is Mutua saying? I traveled back during Kibaki's time, Uhuru and now Ruto but the truth is, this is the worst of them all. The only thing Ruto is good at is giving fake promises..
What is annoying is how they are justifying their actions. We will lose all the tourist to Zanzibar and tanzania
It's better we create business for our neighbours 😊😊 at the current level of reasoning we don't deserve the tourists, especially those who actually work hard save their money all year just to travel. Let them enjoy other countries in the region I beg. We have become ridiculous as a country
Ujinga ndo umejaa Kenya
The airport itself is so corrupt. When you want to pass there , officers ask you money for nothing
Uhuru warned some silly Kenyans to avoid ruto like plague but they refused listening to him now see the repercussions
As a matter of principle, uhuru should have started by avoiding Ruto like plague. why did he allow him to make him president thrice? This hypocricy is at another level
It is not true that guns have been coming to Kenya. This would mean there are no checks at all in the other airports.
They created propaganda to justify what they they are doing.
I purely love Uhuru❤❤❤😢😢i miss him
What law is this, class action lawsuit coming up it’s ridiculous beyond disgusting exposing foreigners to harassment
Can Uhuru run for president again please
😂😂😂ukabila itawauwa it has to be one of ur own shame
There is a chance that the confiscated items. still find their way into the Kenyan market. Someone to investigate.
This reminds me one time l travelled from home and some guy at the main entrance asked me if l had electronic goods in my luggage, not knowing l said l had a small dvd player for my son. Later some lady at the counter said that my luggage was smelling like smoke., l asked her if we could open my luggage as l had nothing to conceal. We checked together and there was nothing burning and l locked my luggage, l assumed all was in order… until l reached to my destination only to discover that they had my luggage bag zipperlock completely broken and my kid’s DVD player missing.
Don't put anything important in your suitcase when you traveling to Kenya, I had the same experience....
I lost more than 10 watches. I was so bitter about it. Imagine opening your luggage to find gifts you had even called the owners via zoom when buying they are missing! How do you even tell them that their gifts have been stolen at the airport!
Since that day I never carry any valuable gift on the main🧳. What's happening at the airport adds salt to already an open wound.
They are thieves in jkia.
Wengi ni wezi.
Mutua and murkomen visit to jkia is just hot air.
Very true.
What a shame ! They will even try to help you find the luggage knowing later they will be asking you for money , one day i was left by plane because of the security search , when i asked them what can i do next , then they told me to pay again cos it was my fault for being late . I was fuming.
Sasa tutarudi kuona familia zetu na mikono mitupu bila kuwaletea any gifts jamani 😢utarudi vipi kwa watoto bila kitu mkononi??
Choosing mfuga kuku son of a nobody has messed kenya alot. Jinga kabisa.
Nimepanga mabilioni 50, kesho nitaweka mabilioni ya pesa, nimesema mabilioni 80 ziwekwe Kwa fund, fund nimeamuru mabilioni iwekwe Kwa project, project nitafanya mabilioni ya pesa ikuwe hewa. Habana Asanteni sana
Diaspora stop sending money to Kenya!!!!!
Which airline allows firearms and ammunition without declaration. Olale tell us the truth .
The 500dollar of 2014 is not the same as of 2023, prices of commodities have gone up, hence the cutoff 500dollar should be raised as the prices have also gone up, now that insistence of not changing a system because it benefits you is also called corruption of a system. That's why you find outcries because somehow the system is not functioning as it should.
$500 for 20 years? Adjusting for inflation that number should be here right?
Yaani you buy items which are taxed already, then you arrive kenya,kra they tax you again
Problem with Kenya is that theree will Never Ever Be A Lasting solution to our problems 😢😢😢😢
I think KRA should look for a better way of getting taxes not this type
Ukipata nafasi ya kwenda inje utarudi mikono tupu? Kwanini ndege zinapatiana saduku mbili?
I'm sure my own personal phone will be charged. I'm eager to know in the next coming 12 months whether tourism sector will be high.
People will be coming out of aircraft like wanashuka kwa matatu bila luggage 😂😂
I will Carry nothing to kenya..
All tourists to land to 🇺🇬 and 🇹🇿 for holiday purposes ❤❤
then you wonder where did the local and international tourism went 😂😂😂 jinga Sana
Watching this, booking a flight to Tanzania,
honestly if this is how this government would behave, id rather never come back here
A WELL-PLANNED PURE PR. CONGRATS MASTERS!
Creat meaningful jobs for Kenyans so as they can pay taxes hii ujinga ya kukimbilia taxes Mahalia akuna is counterproductive kwani tax collection imekua emergency
That's why they have duty free shops at airports! Tanzania will get more tourists, they'll see.
Zakayoland. The most unhappiest country in Africa. Tourists should pass and go to other countries.
This is insane so they are taxing twice in US and Kenya ..
Tourist should avoid Kenya
Wakenya wenye wako na means to land to tanzania 🇹🇿 Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 Kongo or 🇺🇬.
Exactly and come by road from Kampala ...wako na ujinga sana
$500dollars ni pesa kidogo sana.... considering people from dispora vitu hukua expensive compared to Kenyan shilling living cost. Vitu kama underwear, weaves, phones shoes perfume etc. Kenyans working abroad watakuwa wakirudi home mikono mitupu to their families. That is so unfair. Let them push that $500 to aleast $1500 . Juu mtu akirudi home after working for years abroad itakuwa TU chocolate unaeza letea watu.
Wish uhuru ruled this country for 24years like moi
Wow. Thanks for that expose. Getting in is a hustle… the shake downs by customs is a slap on the face… getting out is another hustle… I got conned by security airport one time when he claimed that I give him 300 for taxi from the gate to the airport terminal.. at that time the traffic was so bad I had to hop on a motorcycle to get me to the entrance…. Once the taxi got there he told me to pay an additional 300 to get me to the airport terminal.. and I told him I’ve already paid the security for that… and he told me that’s their fee just to call a taxi … wow shocked is an understatement. Name of the officer calvinces abonyo. This is an on going operation
Shame on him.
To be really its not good we are in different countries working nonstop just to come home to pay 😢😢😢😢this item we get from the counties we are its not that much
Why are sex toys prohibited?! 😂
Such stupidity. You can't even go through without paying $100
In the UK if you bring over 200 cigarettes (10pkts) you must declare and pay tax. 10 pkts cost less than $100 back home. The gentleman had 3 brand new iPhones and for sure he must pay import duty no question about that. This rule has been there since 2004 , maybe people should check exactly when this was enacted. Even LH and GLA There're items which get confiscated due to one reason or another. Let's give credit where it's due and also complain when necessary. But bullets, guns, drugs, excessive gadgets, 20kgs extras for friends and relatives as presents such things should either be confiscated or tax must be paid.
Jkia mtanionea viusasa, this airport will soon loose billions, Kenyans, twenda Tz ama Ug, wakule kiburi wako nayo,
A country that over tax her people, investors is a failing economy, instead of providing a favorable environment for businesses they are looting visitors and citizens,
Instead of overtaxation, help the citizens to have operable environment for business, and if you tax us we wont be complaining, but no job but the little we have you over tax.
When you see a dog bark harder ,,the owner is near ..
A failed state
Let me ask is this $500 cap only on goods that one bought, or does it include personal effects that one carried to a foreign country when going and brought back when coming back?
Even personal item's, sometimes even your own mobile😅😅stupid government. Am not going next year. Better go to zanzibar or stay here in Europe 😢
@@user-ow7bt2ci3xgaiiii so if i have an personal iphone 15,i pay for it?
Madness!!
Why can't they just say the 500 dollars on gifts, or new items. Not personal effects.
The Nairobi Airport customs is known to be very corrupt, especially towards tourists. I was compelled to pay approximately $400 in fabricated tax fees for personal, used computer monitors.
Reflecting on the situation, I wish I had recorded the customs agent explaining the taxes, obtained a printed copy of their report, and recorded myself signing the document. Alternatively, leaving the monitors at the airport with a photo of the agent next to them might have been a better course of action.
By paying, you effectively admit guilt, and there is little chance of getting your money back. Unfortunately, there is no legal system to provide assistance in such cases.
In foreign airports even your underpant is scanned and facebook texts checked. Why would we allow pple to come in without being checked because of "customer experience"? Just put in a smooth system that minimises corruption and quickens the process but they must be checked and they must declare. 4 iphones are a lot to bring without declaration. In Australia you would have paid a fine of $20K
We got Einstein in the building
All the government people starting with there boss zakayo doesn't know what economy is how can Kenyans elect doctor to run for the country