Busia one-stop border post renders hundreds jobless

Busia One Stop Border Post that President Uhuru Kenyatta is scheduled to open on Saturday. (Photo: Ignatius Odanga, Standard)

There was hope for better trade when President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, opened the Sh1.3 billion Busia One Stop Border Post in February this year. But what was meant to streamline processes by marking the end to a manual system has come with pain.

As much as the government appears to have sealed leakages through which tax used to leak to corrupt revenue collectors, individuals who worked in the clearing and forwarding sector are crying over job losses.