Total reports: 27 and counting...
the usual
Reported : April 23, 2013 - 10:11
| County : Busia
Paid On : April 22, 2013
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia Border Po |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
Kra should stop this nonsense of saying they are below target revenue wise. first they could fix the whole clearance system at Busia et al. then they could get rid of all this corrupt officers who will not do any work unless bribed or if they do, you will wait for hours. they have favorites and if you are not only ching ching will work. its an open secret that to clear a container will cost 5000/ and above. assuming the investigation u nit actually works they could check.
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BUSINESS AS USUAL
Reported : April 1, 2013 - 15:04
| County : Busia
Paid On : March 28, 2013
| Customs
PAID10000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
Am a Ugandan citizen and i love Kenya. But the corruption at this customs office for even tiny things is depressing.How do this guys sleep at night?? HE DEMANDED a payment of 20k for a container of goods because he didnt have the time and was busy waiting to see whether his Candidate of choice won. He said he had to make money now or never. Then he refused to accept my documents and sent me away. I only got served after i spoke to another officer who i assume they shared the loot with. While i admit that i could have been more patient and probably saved that cash, its the norm at this yard for us to pay bribes!1
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LIFE GOES ON
Reported : March 14, 2013 - 10:39
| County : Busia
Paid On : March 12, 2013
| Customs
PAID6000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia Border Po |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
As KRA continues to bury their head in the sand, we keep being forced to pay bribes .. which then adds to the cost of business. do KRA have an investigative arm?? and if so what do they do? corrupt to the TTTTTT! WITH THE delays caused by electioneering, the cost of having your container inspected and maybe cleared has gone up... i hate to write this, i would possibly be flogged in public by my fellow transporters, but hopefully the incoming govt will streamline this crap!if its genuine in creating wealth, reducing the cost of doing business and such a like..
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Mazda Premacy
Reported : February 13, 2013 - 07:46
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : December 28, 2011
| Customs
PAID30000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Transaction: |
Import Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
Mr M said the car had power windows and wasn't on Kra website so he would charge me as for Tribute. He quoted 60000and we negotiated down half way to 30,000.terrible system. Githurai city council ward-40,000,for permission to construct . My building plan would not be approved unless I paid 120,000 to city hall in bribe.
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i paid custom
Reported : February 12, 2013 - 22:05
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : February 8, 2013
| Customs
PAID150000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
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BUSINESS AS USUAL
Reported : February 12, 2013 - 13:30
| County : Kisumu
Paid On : February 1, 2013
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Kisumu |
| Transaction: |
Import Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I run a fishing business in in Kisumu and everytime i bring in my fish, i have to pay the custom people 15k in various taxes, but the customs guys have a charge of 5k they charge fishermen . This is once a month. Everyone knows about it and its ''the best kept secret' that custom officers never want to be transferred, they are like the traffic police. Serikali saidia!
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Clearance
Reported : February 7, 2013 - 02:35
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : July 8, 2010
| Customs
PAID50000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
long room |
| Transaction: |
Import Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I wanted to clear my car duty free. I had all documents clear and what I thought was straight foward took a week then two. I was sent to nairobi twise because they could not see a exit stamp of 2005. Someone told me to oill their fingers and I will get my car. I was told it was kenyan style. True to his word I got my car that day after parting with Ksh 50000.
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Laptops
Reported : February 6, 2013 - 14:32
| County : Nairobi
Paid On : January 11, 2013
| Customs
PAID60000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Transaction: |
Import Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I send laptops and aother electronics from the UK via British Airways cargo.
I was forced to pay this bribe of Ksh 60000 to clear my cargo through Customs and also to some KRA officials at the Airport Customs..
This area must surely rank among the most corrupt in the country.. Every one demands a bribe, even the security guards at the gates..All the officials inside are paid bribes and share among each other..
Otherwise they threaten that they will declare your cargo to be "not fit for purpose " and does not fulfill import conditions and the goods will be auctioned.
The officials must take home approximately 50-100K Kshs. per day from desperate people looking to clear their cargo.
No receipts for any of these is issued.
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CONTAINER
Reported : February 6, 2013 - 12:00
| County : Busia
Paid On : February 4, 2013
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia Border Po |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
airtelmoney |
| Details: |
I paid custom official Mr *********** 5000/ to help hasten the inspection of my container and i have seen him collecting from others. i will keep naming him. @kra needs to stop this people.
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INSPECTION
Reported : February 4, 2013 - 11:13
| County : Busia
Paid On : January 23, 2013
| Customs
PAID6000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia Border Po |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
6000/ PER CONTAINER..is the cost we pay to have a container INSPECTED... and the late it gets the amount increases.. one of trucks paid 10k to get inspected because it was raining!! thats before i even have to pay the normal govt taxes. This is a diff economy!
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KARIBU KENYA
Reported : January 26, 2013 - 14:11
| County : Nairobi
Paid On : January 4, 2013
| Customs
PAID5500
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
JKIA |
| Transaction: |
Import Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
Coming from vacation.
These JKIA customs staff at the arrivals lounge. They throw big words like this guy must pay IDF and the taxes due. They clearly overprice and overestimate what your personal clothes and gifts for your family are worth and if you have a design of bag/suitcase they have never seen then they value that too and give you a huge figure like 30k but we will only charge you 15k then they expect you to haggle/ bargain from that figure.HII Nchi ya watu wa Vichwa vidogo. Shouldnt we have standard amounts? or atleast somethingw e can work with??
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AGAIN AND AGAIN
Reported : December 10, 2012 - 16:03
| County : Busia
Paid On : December 5, 2012
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
IF YOU ARE THERE KRA and are not compromised, please help. For each container we clear through customs at this border point we have to pay 5000/ this must be the richest officials, considering how much is cleared! Please help @kra
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******** this!
Reported : November 20, 2012 - 10:14
| County : Busia
Paid On : November 6, 2012
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
First you have to wait for hours on end to be checked and counter checked, and to reduce that wait you pay 2/3k then you have a facillitation fee for inspection.. Is it a wonder we have to increase our costs?? This border point and Malaba should be under EACC check. I say without fear of contradiction that we are at the mercies of the lords of impunity and corruption! Many of my fellow Transport truck owners wont say a word, but ENOUGH IS *******
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'' BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP''
Reported : October 18, 2012 - 12:07
| County : Busia
Paid On : September 19, 2012
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
It costs an average of 5k per container to get clearance at this border point. I have average of 10 containers a week, so thats 50k, and am not the only one. If you don't pay a certain high ranking officer here, your container will not be cleared or will be the last to be cleared. The delays to this cause astronomical damage to our businesses, and while many will not complain because they will damage the ''relationships'' they have with this officers, time has come for us to say *******
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CLEARANCE
Reported : August 28, 2012 - 08:49
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : August 8, 2012
| Customs
PAID9000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Mombasa |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I imported a vehicle from Japan.However, i did not have the requiste forms from the inspection body. As the vehicle was going through the system and before its release an officer noted that. I needed to then get a Kenya Bureau of Standard certificate. The choices were clear, i either pay for one, delay it and keep paying demurrage ( which had already happened) or have one signed and stamped for a small fee. The negotiation was long and tedious but agreeable. I paid what i had to and moved on.
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COME BABY COME
Reported : July 24, 2012 - 22:39
| County : Busia
Paid On : November 30, 1999
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Border Point |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I invite KRA revenuw police and EACC to probe this border post where containers are cleared at a cost, and for those who dont part with 5k per truck or container, you will spend the whole day there.... then again am sure KRa revenue police are involved...how will we ever do business at this rate??
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Personal Goods
Reported : July 24, 2012 - 21:46
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : November 30, 1999
| Customs
PAID9000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Mombasa Port |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I imported some personal effects as a returning resident, clearing them goods was a nightmare, the custom officers were looking for frivolous reasons to delay my clearing and i was being charged demurrage. Ast some point i just decided to do what every other cowardly and dorrupt Kenyan does.. paid a bribe to get things done. AND while it was it went against everything i stand for!
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SPEED
Reported : May 17, 2012 - 12:05
| County : Busia
Paid On : May 9, 2012
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Border control |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
The ease of doing business at our border controls will only be fixed when we integrate bothe immigration and customs and we dont have to go from one office to the other. this process creates room for corruption which is the case. to have your containers cleared quickl, you have to part with 5k, if you calculate how many containers and trucks are passing through the border point, the customs officers are living large. now as a trucking company owner, i have to add 10/15k for my ''cost of doing business on the road'' from the weighbridge, to various police ''stops'' etc. that cost is finally borne by the customer.
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Container's
Reported : March 12, 2012 - 17:43
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : March 13, 2011
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
mombasa |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
last year this time i had to pay 5000 to a well known customs officer to facilliate my documentation. What was disappointing was i was bringing old laptops and books for his home village. But he wouldnt hear of it. ''kazi haina marafiki ama ukoo'' were his words. Very disappointing!after paying him off, my paperwork moved rapidly. I kept wondering how muc he makes a day...definetly more than me!
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AGAIN
Reported : February 15, 2012 - 13:37
| County : Busia
Paid On : February 8, 2012
| Customs
PAID5000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I paid an equivalent of 5000 to custom officers, police and some obsucure govt organization to facillitate my passage to uganda. at every point in the long documentation process, it was either i didnt have a necessary signature from mombasa which i could ''get'' by paying a small fee or some document was missings! last week in Malaba, my other colleague went through the same process. but we have no choice because we have to deliver our goods to teh clients and we have deadlines.its a small price to pay. buy it adds up.
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Cartels
Reported : February 14, 2012 - 01:52
| County : Busia
Paid On : January 18, 2012
| Customs
PAID7000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Busia |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
If you think owning is a truck is fun, you try the Busia border point. My trucks have been spending an avearage of 2 weeks at the border point. delays are created because of the many documents that need to be filled but also the bribes we have to pay to police, custom officer and immigration officers, it doesnt matter whether your papers are in order. Many of this officers must be millionaires considering how we oay everyday. This CRAP has to stop.. we are really really tired. Atleast i am!
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A Loss for Everyone.
Reported : January 24, 2012 - 01:15
| County : Nairobi
Paid On : January 16, 2003
| Customs
PAID8000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Nairobi |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
corporate |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
My wife and I were Peace Corps volunteers in Kenya in the 1970s. We enjoyed our experience very much and came to know many hard-working craftspeople. On our return to the US, we started a small business supplying Kenyan arts and crafts to museum shops.We met with some success and, as a result, returned to Kenya seven times to purchase more srtifacts, each time spending between US $ 10,000 and US $ 30,000 on artifacts, plus several thousand dollars more on expenses. Our goods were shipped out by container. Each time, at the bottom of our shipping bill, there was an amount which we were told had to be paid in cash, in spite of the fact that we paid the rest of the bill in a US $ check. When we finally asked why this was, we were told that it was the bribe to be paid to the customs inspector, who would confiscate our container if we refused to pay the bribe. We were also told that, when we paid the bribe, the inspector would not even bother to inspect our container, he/ she only wanted the "chai". We, in fact, wanted our containers inspected, as well as everyone else's, to prevent the smuggling of wildlife products such as ivory and skins. We are avid conservationists and are upset by the rampant poaching that occurs in Africa. We have seen elephants with poison arrows in their sides and feet missing from snares. As a result of all this we have chosen not to return to Kenya, thus depriving your country and our suppliers there of the substantial amounts we spent on each trip. All this is in addition to the bribe we were forced to pay to the minister who oversaw the export of gemstones and decided that the soapstone carvings we were buying and exporting were "gems" and insisted on a bribe or he would confiscate our container.
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I saved a bunch!
Reported : January 12, 2012 - 17:31
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : January 19, 2011
| Customs
PAID150000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Mombasa |
| Transaction: |
Container Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
corporate |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
last year i brought a container of spare parts. I had miscalculated on the duty due. When the the final tabulation came i was expected to pay 375k. Plus demurrage it was around 425k. I had the container cleared at 150k in cash . No arguements. The guys who helped are come highly recommended!
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CUSTOMS HAS A BRIBE RATE!
Reported : January 8, 2012 - 10:27
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : November 16, 2011
| Customs
PAID133000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Mombasa |
| Transaction: |
Import Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I imported two containers of Mitumba (2nd hand) clothes hoping to make a killing during the xmas season. I didnt know that the Customs duties had been hiked from sh900,000 to sh1,100,000 per cntr meaning I needed to part with sh400,000 extra for the two containers. However, my clearing agent negotiated with the Customs Officer who asked for the "usual" bribe rate and thats when I came to learn that "usual" meant a third of the taxes evaded. I thus parted with sh133,000 and got my containers thus saving a whooping sh267,000!!
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Getting a Number Plate
Reported : December 20, 2011 - 21:53
| County : Mombasa
Paid On : January 19, 2011
| Customs
PAID25000
| Department: |
Customs |
| Office Location: |
Tag registratio |
| Transaction: |
Import Clearance |
| Bribe Type: |
personal |
| Payment Method: |
cash |
| Details: |
I imported a car from japan and was made to pay kshs 20,0000 shipping cost (without receipt) despite the fact that I had cleared C.I.F with the exporter. After 3 days delay I was told the the registration was complete but another kshs 3000 was needed to get past the gate where number plates are issued. When plate finally arrived, the lady who brought it demanded kshs 2000 to mount it.
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ribe Fighters
