Ex-CJ Willy Mutunga questions Ruto move to abolish Visa restrictions for all visitors
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Ex-CJ Willy Mutunga says Kenyans must have a voice on Ruto's plan to abolish visa requirements
Ex-CJ Willy Mutunga says Kenyans must have a voice on Ruto’s plan to abolish visa requirements.
Former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga has weighed in on President William Ruto’s plan to abolish any visa requirement while traveling to Kenya.
In a statement on X on Monday, the former CJ claimed that Kenyans should have been involved in the decision through public participation.
The Ex-CJ pointed out that Kenyans exercise their direct sovereign power in such cases.
“Kenyans should demand public participation in all these decisions. How do we use our direct sovereign power if not in cases like this?” he posed.
Mutunga was responding to activist Boniface Mwangi after he said that the government should explain a policy to Kenyans before implementing it.
“Ruto announced VISA-free without reciprocity without involving us. Ruto is changing our foreign policy. The budget deficit from visa fee collections will be paid by us,” Mwangi posted.
Speaking on Monday during the opening of the Africa Climate Summit at KICC Nairobi, President Ruto said it was unfair to ask one of the Visa requirements when they were coming home.
“We are having a conversation as Kenyans in a few months. We are seriously considering abolishing any visa requirement because it is unfair to ask anybody coming home for visas,” Ruto said.
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President Ruto had in May during the African Private Sector Dialogue Conference on Free Trade, told the African delegates that, that might be the last time they will pay for visas to visit the country.
“This is home. We wholeheartedly support the AfCFTA and we must remove any impediments to the movement of people around our continent,” Ruto noted.
Ruto has been at the forefront of urging African countries to scrap visa requirements for their African citizens permanently.
Recently the president scrapped the visa requirements for Indonesian nationals moving to the country.
Ruto had already scrapped visa requirements for Senegale and Comoros among other countries arguing that it would spur trade between the countries.
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