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Mahusiano ya kimataifa hususan baina ya majirani hayajengwi kwa chuki, majungu na visasi, hapakuwa na ulazima kuelekeza hasira zote zile kwa vifaranga ambavyo havikuwa na hatia yoyote.....
Hao vifaranga bora hata mngewapa sumu, lakini kutia viberiti vifaranga 6,400 wakiwa hai lazima utakuwa aina fulani ya mtu wa hatari sana hata kwa jamii iliyokuzunguka na kukutegemea.
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President Samia Suluhu Hassan said yesterday that the order to burn 6,400 live chicks imported from Kenya five years ago was wrong.
The chicks which were impounded at the Namanga border town were set on fire in November 2017 on grounds that they were smuggled in.
Five years after the torching, the President said the action nearly soiled the historical relations between the two trading partners.
“It was not a good way to handle such imports. Even chickens have the right to live,” she said when she addressed lawyers from the region.
The move was criticised by members of the business community from the two neighbouring countries as well as animal rights groups.
The 6,400 day- old chicks were impounded at the famous border town between the two states on allegations of being illegal imports.
Read: Banning and burning chickens business
The matter nearly degenerated into a diplomatic tiff as Kenya formally protested on what it termed “ a policy shift that condones hostile actions against Kenyan citizens.”
The then Tanzania High Commissioner to Kenya Dr. Pindi Chana was summoned by the Kenya Foreign Ministry to explain “the unilateral action”.
At that time the ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries said that burning of live chicks was made to prevent the spread of bird flu.
Citizen Kenya
Hao vifaranga bora hata mngewapa sumu, lakini kutia viberiti vifaranga 6,400 wakiwa hai lazima utakuwa aina fulani ya mtu wa hatari sana hata kwa jamii iliyokuzunguka na kukutegemea.
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President Samia Suluhu Hassan said yesterday that the order to burn 6,400 live chicks imported from Kenya five years ago was wrong.
The chicks which were impounded at the Namanga border town were set on fire in November 2017 on grounds that they were smuggled in.
Five years after the torching, the President said the action nearly soiled the historical relations between the two trading partners.
“It was not a good way to handle such imports. Even chickens have the right to live,” she said when she addressed lawyers from the region.
The move was criticised by members of the business community from the two neighbouring countries as well as animal rights groups.
The 6,400 day- old chicks were impounded at the famous border town between the two states on allegations of being illegal imports.
Read: Banning and burning chickens business
The matter nearly degenerated into a diplomatic tiff as Kenya formally protested on what it termed “ a policy shift that condones hostile actions against Kenyan citizens.”
The then Tanzania High Commissioner to Kenya Dr. Pindi Chana was summoned by the Kenya Foreign Ministry to explain “the unilateral action”.
At that time the ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries said that burning of live chicks was made to prevent the spread of bird flu.
Citizen Kenya