Treat Kenyan VIPs with more decorum

The shoddy handling of Kenyan officials, including Energy Cabinet Secretary Charles Keter, at the Port of Tanga in Tanzania was unfortunate and uncalled for. Coming at a time the three main East African countries — Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda — are exploring huge joint infrastructural projects, that event should not be allowed to sour relations between these nations.

The Kenyan delegation was repeatedly humiliated while their Ugandan counterparts, whom they had travelled with, were honoured and treated with utmost respect and decorum. The Kenyan and Ugandan delegations were on a tour to assess the three ports of Lamu, Mombasa and Tanga to establish which was best suited to terminate crude oil pipelines from the two countries.