EAC transport ministers meet today to resolve border cargo delays
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 0:01
By ANNIE NJANJA
Truck drivers and their assistants wait for Covid-19 tests at Namanga border post on May 12.
PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE
East Africa Community (EAC) transport ministers are set to meet Tuesday to try to resolve cargo delays and other challenges being experienced by truck drivers at border points.
The ministers are later in the day expected to issue a joint statement on Covid-19 testing protocols to be adopted by all member states amid tensions caused by truck drivers protesting disputed results, a lengthy wait for results or harassment.
“What we are doing is ensuring that mechanisms that protect citizens of the EAC are put in place and movement of cargo still continues,” Mercy Mwangangi, Chief Administrative Secretary at Kenya's Ministry of Health, said yesterday.
Their Tanzanian counterparts have also decried delayed cargo movement into Kenya owing to Covid-19 testing.
