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EA integration should not cause income loss, regional leaders say

EA integration should not cause income loss, regional leaders say
President Uhuru Kenyatta with Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni (left) and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame (right) during the 8th Northern Corridor Integration Projects Summit today in Nairobi.

Nairobi: Revenue authorities from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda have been instructed to ensure no clearing and forwarding agency is denied business at the port of Mombasa due to bureaucracy.

President Uhuru Kenyatta, President Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and President Paul Kagame (Rwanda) on Thursday night directed Kenya Revenue Authority boss John Njiraini and his counterparts  to rectify a bureaucratic glitch that has seen almost 1800 clearing and forwarding agents locked out from using systems used by Uganda and Rwanda to clear goods at the port of Mombasa.

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