Kenya: Clean Up Immigration
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The Nation (Nairobi)
EDITORIAL
8 July 2008
Posted to the web 8 July 2008
Nairobi
Allegations that immigration officials are engaging in corruption while issuing residence documents to foreigners call for thorough investigations.
The danger, besides the bribery crime involved, is that rogue officials could let in foreigners whose activities may undermine national security.
It will be remembered that corrupt officials were to blame for allowing materials used to make a bomb to pass through the port in 1998. The bomb was later that year detonated at the US embassy, killing 250 people.
Immigration is not just about giving business and residence permits to investors; it also affects social and security relations, and the officers charged with this responsibility must always act in public interest.
It should also be noted that immigrants, especially from Asia, have been previously allowed into the country illegally. Many were later issued with work permits and got jobs as managers in private companies, even when they could speak neither English nor Kiswahili.
It is not clear whether the cartel that trafficked the foreigners into Nairobi was smashed. But the danger in allowing corruption at the department to go on unchecked is that it can end up worsening the unemployment crisis because foreigners are likely to take over jobs that would ordinarily be done by Kenyans.
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It is encouraging to note that Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang' has welcomed the investigations. This is a good pointer that with commitment from the top, it is possible to eradicate the cancer of corruption, which has continued to bedevil public institutions.
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kenyan immigration have the most popular and religous but to clean up the imigrant some of them may not have peace in thair countrys whold this be fair clean them as well...