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'Stateless' others weep as they watch Makonde get IDs


Feb. 03, 2017, 9:00 am
By ALLOYS MUSYOKA, @k2musyoka

Unrecognised people from Rwanda and Tanzania wept as they watched President Uhuru Kenyatta give IDs to the Makonde community on Wednesday.

The documents Uhuru issued included 1176 IDs, 1,496 citizenship cards and 1,731 birth certificates.

“You are no longer stateless people,” the President told members of the Makonde community.

[VIDEO] Jubilee Party woos sateless Makonde with IDs for 2017 Uhuru vote

The Rwandese and Tanzanians were left out even though they trekked to State House, Nairobi, in October last year with the Makonde.

“We were discriminated against and are at a crossroads. We ask the government to remember us. We have been living here with our children,” said Shedrack Kiza, a 71-year-old Rwandese.

Kiza told journalists that more than 400 of his countrymen live in Kwale, and have been there for decades, just like the Makonde.

Stella Kilinga said she was divorced and despised by her children.

“I live as a slave in fear of police and other authorities. I have been sick but cannot go to hospital because I lack documents,” said Kilinga.

“Imagine a mother like me working and being paid Sh1,500 a month just because I don’t have an ID. I came here a long time ago with my father who worked in a sugar plantation but he died."

She asked Uhuru and Deputy President William Ruto to help them.

The Rwandese and the Makonde live in the same villages in Makongeni, Msambweni, and other areas.

Pemba people, led by Kombo Kirua, said they were also left out despite having fought for recognition alongside the Makondes.

Most of them live in Lunga Lunga and number about 6,000, said area MP Khatib Mwashetani.

Uhuru recognised the other people and asked authorities to look into their issues.

“I have heard what has been said about other stateless people. Their issues should be addressed so they can join the others," he said.

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KWA maoni yangu sio vizuri kwabagua hawa majirani zetu........

 

[Edward Wanjala]

Yaani 6,000 people from Pemba!!! Sasa wabongo wamekuwa wakilalamika nini kuhusu Pemba kuchukuliwa na Kenya???

 

[MOTOCHINI]

Kazi kwenu
ila ungesema Warwanda na watanzania

 

[Emc2]

Hatuna uraia pacha.

 

[MK254]

Nimefurahi kuona rais ameitikia kilio chao na kuagiza wasaidiwe kupata uraia. Huwa inaniuma sana kuona Waafrika tukibaguana au kutesana ilhali wazungu wanatubagua pia.

 

[MkamaP]

Siyo kwamba wapiga kura wameongezeka. Ha ha ha ha

 

[Mwanzi1]

Yani watu wengine wamekuja Kenya tokea 1940's Leo ndio mnafikirua kuwapa uraia?? Shame on you Kenya. Tanzania wanakuja wakimbizi miaka mitano mpaka kumi wanapata uraia. Watoto wao wakizaliwa Tanzania wakaa miaka mitano tuu tayari ni raia watanzania.

 

[KeMzalendo]

Yani watu wengine wamekuja Kenya tokea 1940's Leo ndio mnafikirua kuwapa uraia?? Shame on you Kenya. Tanzania wanakuja wakimbizi miaka mitano mpaka kumi wanapata uraia. Watoto wao wakizaliwa Tanzania wakaa miaka mitano tuu tayari ni raia watanzania.

The makondes yes, the others I doubt. If we proceed as such we will be setting Kenya for massive migrant population.
The Tanzanians will particularly be a nuisance in the coming years. Think USA and mexico. They can speak Swahili and so can easily blend in. Look at those figures of 6k from Pemba already.
In Kenya there's something called alien I.d cards. They need to apply for those. Not get citizenship. Considering that our brothers the makonde had been rejected by the original home country. It made sense to be assimilated. I don't think the tzanians and rwandese are stateless as such

 

[Mwanzi1]

The makondes yes, the others I doubt. If we proceed as such we will be setting Kenya for massive migrant population.
The Tanzanians will particularly be a nuisance in the coming years. Think USA and mexico. They can speak Swahili and so can easily blend in. Look at those figures of 6k from Pemba already.
In Kenya there's something called alien I.d cards. They need to apply for those. Not get citizenship. Considering that our brothers the makonde had been rejected by the original home country. It made sense to be assimilated. I don't think the tzanians and rwandese are stateless as such

What puzzles me is the fact that some of those people have lived in Kenya all their adult lives. I'm very sure they even have grown children's who were born and bred in Kenya but still they have to applied an (as you called it) alien ID card. I can understand that Kenya have to watch it's borders, but for people who don't know anything else than Kenya are they really aliens?? In Tanzania we haven't got an open policy which guarantee citizenship to who ever comes in, but we have a clear law that gives right to apply for Tanzania citizenship once you've been here legally for certain period of time (no due citizenship). And as for children's who were born in Tanzania and lived here for five years straight and the child is happy to be ONLY Tanzanian national, the citizenship is there's to take. We're giving ID cards now, soon we'll know who is who, and we also clearing all those people are stateless. Take a look at the link below, these people were granted Tanzanian citizenship just by claiming their ancestry rights, even those Tanzania could've just denied them because technically they are Somali national.

Somali Bantus gain Tanzanian citizenship in their ancestral land