Matiang'i Orders Crackdown on Foreigners Running Illegal Businesses in Kenya

Matiang'i Orders Crackdown on Foreigners Running Illegal Businesses in Kenya

Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i has ordered a crackdown on foreigners doing illegal business in the country.

Speaking after a Betting Control and Licensing stakeholders meeting in Nairobi on Monday, Matiang'i says there are several immigrants running businesses in Kenya without the required permits.

He has also ordered the immediate deportation of all foreigners engaging in illegal gambling businesses.

CS Matiang'i has further directed Immigration Principal Secretary Gordon Kihalangwa to review the work permits of all foreign nationals who applied to do business in the country.

“My firm instructions is that anyone who applied for a different permit and ended in the gambling business, I am ready to sign their deportation papers today. We have to clean up the sector,” declares Matiang’i.

“We are not using the guise of revenue to allow a broken sector… Over 90% of players in gaming are foreigners, they repatriate a huge amount of money to their countries.”

He has accused foreigners running gambling businesses of evading taxes, noting that the gaming sector owes the government Sh26 billion in unpaid taxes.

“We are here to listen to each other but not to condemn each other, we respect your investment but understand that we have a country to protect and not when asked to pay taxes you rush to the court,” he notes.

“Advise your employees who are from outside and have permits to do serious businesses, let us respect our country. Where proposals are brought to us in the right way we shall accommodate them.”

 

Comments

Imara Daima (not verified)     Mon, 05/20/2019 @ 09:40am

Ndugu matiang'i: Kwanza maliza utapeli wa askari polisi halafu amani na usalama nchini mwetu mara moja.

Dr. Koni Hanene (not verified)     Mon, 05/20/2019 @ 10:37am

What did Jubilee government expect when it made Kenya an open border country? All this scams you are hearing have been going on for a long time and the government knows. When it allowed Nigerians and West Africans to come to Kenya unvetted it opened a door for all the scammers to come to Kenya and use it as base to scam foreign countries. The government ignored warnings from ordinally Kenyans who warned it not to make such mistake. Kenya will soon be like Nigeria. Senior government officials are involved in those scams. Foreign Minister Moses Watengula(Kibaki's government) is a long time Nigerian 419 scam operative and has scammed Kenya government billions of shillings including prime properties in Nigeria and Japan with impunity. Foreigners should not be used as scapegoats to mask government incompetence

Anonymous UI (not verified)     Mon, 05/20/2019 @ 08:58pm

Best policy for a developing nation like Kenya: We should only import things that we can see and touch and cannot be locally made.
Any fake financial hubs; consulting hubs; fake stock market; unnecessary banks;money sharks; gambling etc, should all be closed down.

Imara Daima (not verified)     Mon, 05/20/2019 @ 09:00pm

Mzee Imara daima anataka kujua:

Je, WAFULA CHEBUKATI (mwenyekiti wa tume ya IEBC) atawaruhusu matapeli kama WETANGULA, MKRISTO RUTO, na RAILA kushiriki kwenye uchaguzi wa 2022 tena?

mkenya halisi (not verified)     Mon, 05/20/2019 @ 11:22pm

DR Hanene we need to open our boarders among Africans the way europe did juu Africa used to b one until the demons evils colonialists came n divided us making us hate each other by introducing divide n rule tactics which actually worked for them but not us.What we need is law to b followed n that is what matiangi is stating n i hope he follows his tongue n check this foreign companies if they r truly investing in the area they came in to do??Dr Hanene i guess u reside in usa or uk so what ru doing in others pples country if u want all foreigners in kenya to b kicked out???For me what jubilee gava did was good n it's still good.The police/immigration r sleeping in it's job to make sure pple r legal n following the law??Have u seen trump deporting kenyans??Is he doing the right thing by deporting them???Answer than question then u will see that each foreigner can invest n live in any country aslong as they r following the law!

Imara Daima (not verified)     Tue, 05/21/2019 @ 04:55pm

Huyu ndugu yetu Matiang'i ameshindwa na kazi kabisa. Hebu tazama vile maskini wasichana kutoka Uganda wanavyopata mateso kutokana na askari polisi wa Kenya wakiuliza "hongo" ili waweze kupata ajira Kenya.

Lakini ningependa kuuliza: Kwa nini Wafrika wanazaanazaana kama mapanya na huku hawawezi kuwalinda watoto wanaowazaa?

https://youtu.be/KuE5ndHYgdA

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