OPINION: Dear Kenyans, all that Ugandans want is Fairplay in trade or at least to return the good gesture
Goods trucks at the Kenya-Uganda border of Busia. Ugandan businesses are complaining of several underhand methods, including non-tariff barriers that are costing them business while the Kenyan businesses receive nearly a red-carpet treatment in Uganda.
For a long, long time, Kenya enjoyed brisk export business to Uganda, so much so that the trade deficit between Uganda and Kenya, in favour of Kenya, reached an all-time high of USD358.5 million in 2011.
This went on for a long time that Kenyans probably must have started thinking, this was their birthright.
Then, Ugandan companies, put their act together, ramping up production of most of t