Abaturage b’Abarundi bari muri Kenya batangiye kwitabira Ambasade y’u Burundi i Nairobi bashaka impapuro z’inzira z’agateganyo zizwi nka laissez-passer, nyuma y’icyemezo cya Perezida wa Kenya, William Ruto, cyo gukaza ingamba ku banyamahanga bakora ubucuruzi buciriritse n’ubuzunguzayi.
Ku wa mbere tariki ya 7 Nzeri 2026, imirongo y’abantu yari myinshi ku
Biro by’Ambasade y’u Burundi mu gace ka Kilimani i Nairobi, aho Abarundi benshi
bari baje gusaba ibyangombwa bibafasha gusubira mu gihugu cyabo. Reuters yatangaje
ko bamwe muri bo bari bafite imizigo, mu gihe abandi bavuze ko batangiye
gutinya ko ubucuruzi bakoraga bushobora guhagarikwa.
Ambasade y’u Burundi yatangaje ko yatangiye gutanga laissez-passer ku
Barundi badafite ibyangombwa bisanzwe by’urugendo kandi bifuza gusubira mu
Burundi. Izi serivisi zitangirwa ku cyicaro cy’Ambasade kiri kuri Denis Pritt
Road, Kilimani, Nairobi.
Iki cyemezo cy’Ambasade cyaje nyuma y’uko Perezida William Ruto ku wa 2
Nzeri ategetse ko abanyamahanga bakora ubucuruzi buciriritse n’ubuzunguzayi
muri Kenya bahagarika ibyo bikorwa, avuga ko ibikorwa bimwe na bimwe
by’ubucuruzi buciriritse bikwiye guharirwa Abanyakenya.
Ruto yavuze ko abanyamahanga bakwiye gushora imari mu bikorwa bisaba
imari nini kandi bigatanga imirimo, aho guhatanira amasoko n’abacuruzi bato
b’Abanyakenya.
Guverinoma ya Kenya ariko yasobanuye ko abanyamahanga bafite impushya
n’ibyangombwa bikenewe bashobora gukomeza gukora mu gihugu. Minisitiri
w’Ubucuruzi n’Ishoramari, Lee Kinyanjui, yavuze ko kuba umuntu yemerewe
kwinjira muri Kenya atari byo byonyine bimuha uburenganzira bwo gukora cyangwa
gukora ubucuruzi; hakenewe impushya n’ibindi byangombwa biteganywa n’amategeko.
Mu gihe umubare w’Abarundi bashaka gutaha wariyongereye, Guverinoma y’u
Burundi yatangaje ko iri gutegura uburyo bwo kubafasha gusubira mu gihugu,
harimo guteganya amabisi azabafasha mu rugendo no gutanga laissez-passer ku
buntu ku bashaka gutaha.
Hari kandi amakuru avuga ko bamwe mu Barundi bari bamaze kugera ku
masitasiyo y’amabisi i Nairobi bashaka imodoka zibajyana mu Burundi, mu gihe
abandi bari ku Ambasade bategereje ibyangombwa by’urugendo.
Iki kibazo cyateje kandi impungenge ku mutekano w’Abarundi baba muri
Kenya. Reuters yatangaje ko bamwe mu bari ku Ambasade bavuze ko bakiriye
iterabwoba cyangwa ko batangiye kugira impungenge nyuma y’amagambo n’ingamba
zatangajwe n’ubuyobozi bwa Kenya.
Ku rundi ruhande, abayobozi n’abanyapolitiki bamwe muri Kenya banenze
uburyo iki cyemezo kiri gushyirwa mu bikorwa, bavuga ko gishobora kongera
umwuka mubi hagati y’abaturage n’ibihugu byo mu karere.
Iki kibazo kandi gifite umwihariko kuko Kenya n’u Burundi ari ibihugu
bigize Umuryango wa Afurika y’Iburasirazuba (EAC), aho ibihugu bigize uyu
muryango bigamije guteza imbere ubuhahirane, urujya n’uruza rw’abantu
n’imikoranire mu bukungu.
Kugeza ubu, ikibazo cy’Abarundi bari muri Kenya gikomeje gukurikiranwa,
mu gihe Ambasade y’u Burundi iri gufasha abifuza gutaha kubona ibyangombwa
bibemerera gukora urwo rugendo.