I Like The Way You Think- Shatta Wale Applauds Kenya’s President Over Visa Speech
Shatta Wale has commended Kenya’s President William Ruto for his recent announcement that visa requirements for all Africans visiting Kenya will soon be eliminated.
The renowned Ghanaian Dancehall artist shared a video of Mr. Ruto’s speech, in which he emphasized the importance of unrestricted travel within the African continent. Ruto’s decision to lift visa requirements by 2023 aims to enhance trade relations between African countries and reduce customs tariffs to promote the African Continental Free Trade Area.
“By the end of this year, no African will need a visa to enter Kenya. The time has come to understand the importance of doing trade between us,” said Ruto, while speaking at the summit of the world’s three major forest basins, namely the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo-Mekong Forest Basins, in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo.
“It is time we realize the importance of trading among ourselves and allowing goods, services, people and ideas to move freely across the continent,” he said, adding that trade among East African Community countries had grown significantly due to the removal of visa requirements and tariffs.
Shatta Wale shared the clip from Kennedy Wandera, a journalist from Kenya on his Twitter page alongside core points from the President’s speech depicted below:
We have visa regulations left, right and centre. Twenty-seven countries in Europe today with 430 million people removed visas. We still have visas. Let me persuade us that it is time we in this continent realise that having visa restrictions amongst ourselves is working against us. When people cannot travel, businesspeople cannot travel, entrepreneurs cannot travel, we all become net losers. I am very happy that now we are moving in the direction of eliminating visas amongst ourselves. Let me say this. As Kenya🇰🇪, by the end of this year, no African will be required to have a visa to come to Kenya. Our children from this continent should not be locked in borders in Europe and also be locked in borders in Africa.
