Tourism and Wildlife CS, Alfred Mutua has accused the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officials of harassing tourists who visit the country at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. https://rb.gy/n9u4b
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00:00 When our tourists come,
00:02 I'm about Cameron Billy,
00:04 I'm about Viatu,
00:06 I'm about shopping,
00:08 I'm about Kare,
00:10 I'm about
00:12 I'm about
00:14 Cameron Billy,
00:16 I'm about perfume,
00:18 We harass our visitors when they come to this country,
00:20 at the airport, and then we wonder
00:22 why they don't come back. You go to Rwanda,
00:24 they don't harass you, when in Rwanda they collect taxes.
00:26 You go to South Africa,
00:28 they don't harass you, when in South Africa they collect taxes.
00:30 You go to Dubai, they don't harass you.
00:32 Why are they harassing our visitors here?
00:34 You know, mama natura, chupiake,
00:36 nekwa kando, naatuwa kere,
00:38 atarani, they'll never come back to Kenya.
00:40 And we wonder
00:42 why did we come to number four, why are people not coming to Kenya?
00:44 So you have to present the right optics,
00:46 people have to get that warm feeling.
00:48 You go to Singapore today,
00:50 nobody harasses you.
00:52 You go to the seashells,
00:54 you go to the Maldives,
00:56 nobody opens your bag.
00:58 You're a tourist.
01:00 You know what I mean?
01:02 So those are some of the things that we need to correct,
01:04 and now you have the right leader to correct them for you.
01:06 You know?
01:08 [applause]
01:10 And we'll ask them, whether you tell us we close down
01:12 the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife,
01:14 and focus on other things, come on,
01:16 but if you want us to collect money,
01:18 and we get this country to be rich,
01:20 then stop harassing our products.
01:22 You know? So that our product can come here
01:24 and do not harass your person.
01:26 Mwazuri.
01:28 [laughter]
01:30 [silence]
01:32 [BLANK_AUDIO]