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Kitarudisha bolingo ndaniKenya retaliates against UK's Covid-19 travel ban
Saturday, April 03, 2021
Kenya on Saturday retaliated against UK’s decision to impose travel restrictions on passengers originating from or transiting through Kenya as part of measures to contain the spread of Covid-19.
Kenya is among four counties that have been added to UK’s red list amid concerns about new Covid-19 variants. From April 9, travellers from Kenya will be barred from entering England.
Following the announcements by the UK, Kenya’s Foreign Affairs ministry issued a statement on Saturday, saying it is “disappointed” by London’s “unilateral” move to restrict travellers.
It announced that from April 9, passengers arriving or transiting through the UK to Kenya will undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine, within which they will have to undergo two Covid-19 tests.
“While in isolation, they will be subject to take two PCR Covid-19 tests, on day two and eight of their quarantine, at their own cost,” the ministry said.
Cargo flight operators and Kenyan nationals are exempt from these new restrictions.
"Kenyan nationals resident in the UK or transiting though its airports into Kenya are exempt," the ministry said, adding that cargo flights between the two countries will continue to operations under protocols that will be announced later.
These two groups will, however, be required to show a valid negative test like other passengers from other regions.
“Vaccine apartheid”
The statement issued on Saturday evening accused the UK of engaging in “vaccine apartheid” with officials in Nairobi arguing they were punishing Kenya for matters beyond its control.
The UK government on Friday added the Philippines, Bangladesh and Pakistan to its ‘Red List’ of countries to which travel restrictions apply.
Passengers from these countries will be refused entry into the UK from April 9. British citizens will also be barred from leaving the UK for these countries, until a further review of Covid-19 infection statuses is carried out.
“This unilateral decision does not reflect a prevailing logic and scientific knowledge of the disease or the spread of the pandemic. Rather, the decision seems to be motivated by a discriminatory policy against certain countries and peoples,” Nairobi said in its statement.
“Kenya has been consistent in maintaining a positive stance towards the United Kingdom despite the challenges and disruptions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Kenya has also remained in constant contact with the Government of the United Kingdom throughout this pandemic in order to maximise opportunities for cooperation.”
Nairobi said it expected closer cooperation with the UK rather than “punitive measures that are discriminatory, divisive and exclusive in their character".
Diplomats’ reactions
UK’s decision was reportedly based on “scientific evidence”, with Kenya particularly indicted for not closing routes where the South African variant of the Covid-19 virus known as B.1.351 has come through.
But Kenyan diplomats in Nairobi have expressed anger at what they think is a case of wrong timing.
“We find it disappointing,” said one diplomat speaking on the background, before the official response was issued later in the evening.
“We've worked with the UK in Covid-19 response, including vaccination, and consider this unwarranted,” the official added, referring to trials on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine which were conducted in Kenya in conjunction with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri).
On Saturday, Kenya said the decision by the UK forms a pattern by rich countries to lock out poor Africans, using vaccine levers as well as Covid-19 status.
“Sadly, however, Kenya continues to see, with deep regret, that vaccine-producing countries around the world have begun practising a form of vaccine nationalism, possessiveness and discrimination, coupled with a vaccine-hoarding attitude that can only be described as a form of 'vaccine apartheid'," the statement added.
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Didn't we also put the same restrictions on passengers coming from certain countries sometime in March/April 2020? Kenya's leading meat wrapper even had a headline baying for the blood of cabinet secretaries who allowed a flight from China to land at JKIA.
So why are we now playing the "Kenya is a sovereign nation" card when UK (the country not the person) is simply protecting its people?
So why are we now playing the "Kenya is a sovereign nation" card when UK (the country not the person) is simply protecting its people?
Mwalimu-G
Elder Lister
WORD.
Ssabasajja
Elder Lister
When other African states banned UK flights, the government failed to do so. Jicho nyanya aache kutupima, because his family has been the biggest beneficiary of the Brits' presence in Kenya
bigDog
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The loudest instruments tend to have a lot of hollow chambers. This allows simple low amplitude tunes to reverberate and create great theatrical experience. Contrast that with the great timing and dexterity of the finest pianists.
You sir is the greatest mental pianist I have ever seen. We should have an Olympic specifically made for you and you only. For your mental pianists skills as well as your mental gymnastics. Hats down to you sir
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bigDog
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! Just like trying to heard them.
It's Me Scumbag
Elder Lister
Field Marshal
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Mimi sielewangi watu wetu. HOW CAN WE INTERACT WITH THE MZUNGU FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND NOT KNOW HIS TRUE NATURE? The European is naturally serpentine - he will bite you no matter what you do sooner or later. He has little empathy - which is why, again, a mzungu will fly 6,000 miles to kill an elephant or lion going around its business. I see people here talking about China as a coloniser naskia kulia. THE CHINESE, DESPITE BEING THE LEADING COUNTRY FOR OVER 1500 YEARS HAS NO HISTORY OF SUBJUGATION OR COLONISATION OF OTHER PEOPLES. They came to Malindi long before Vasco da Gama, wakotombana, wakachukua a few giraffes and ivory wakajitoa. Wengine ku-taste **** ya Mswahili wakasema hawarudi.
Contrast that with what the Europeans did. Genocide after genocide after genocide. Australia. North America. South America. Namibia. Huku kwetu tulisaidiwa na mosquito - early Europeans inevitably died, and Africa was left for the longest time until 1890s when genocides were going out of fashion. 'Mungu Mosquito" alitusaidia.
So these are the people you want to trust? They have been looting our continent for centuries halafu wanatutupia morsels eti ni aid. Have you heard the likes of Oxfam, WB, IMF, World Vision talk about the neo-colonisation of West Africa by the French until today where billions of dollars flow to Paris leaving millions of poor Africans? No you haven't. They are all in it.
A progressive country, if Kenya was one, would already have realised that the future is China. No, the Chinese do not love you. They also can exploit you when given a chance, and they are by the way.
BUT THERE ARE 1.4 BILLION CHINESE. NOTHING YOU GROW OR PRODUCE CAN SATISFY THEIR MARKET. And they are becoming bigger every day.
Tea. Coffee. Minerals. Flowers. Eggs. Whatever. You just can't meet their demand.
Why then we keep bending over backwards to be shafted by the same people who were killing us enmass, EN MASS, the other day is beyond me. Ask @Aviator. Those of use who grew up just next door in Kinale and Kamae were finding bombs craters and unexploded bombs all over that were dropped by the British to kill us for asking for our freedom. I personally found one large unexploded bomb in the 1970s - it would have killed me were my mum not around.
Halafu eti now we alow them to have troops here....................aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
mzeiya
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They complied with Kenya's directive.
Sisi ndio tutaumia thinking we are gaining anything
mzeiya
Elder Lister
KIla mtu anaumia but from a diplomatic standpoint, it's a small but significant win showing that we won't stand being bullied while remaining docile about it.
ShakaZulu
Lister
What worked? We just give them a ring for a boxing match of which we are unprepared for. When someone has power of you because you erroneously trusted them the last thing you should do is to agree for a fight with them. Hapa tungekuja mkia and initiate plans to disentangle ourselves from UK, but we are being led by homeguards.