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MPs denied US visa over drugs, terrorism links

The National Assembly sitting during the reading of this year's Budget. [File, Standard]

At least five MPs have been barred from travelling to the US in a move that signals their failure to meet the multiple criteria – many of them criminal - that the world’s most powerful nation has set for denial of travel visas.

The MPs alongside five parliamentary staff were denied US visas last month when they sought to travel as part of the large Kenyan delegation that was to attend an international conference in Tennessee.

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