| Updated Sun, April 23rd 2017 at 00:00 GMT +3PHOTO:COURTESYThe taxman recorded a revenue growth of 300 per cent at the Busia-Uganda border over the past three years and is looking to net more with establishment of the one stop border post. KRA Western Kenya coordinator Kevin Safari said the post, opened in June 2016, had cut transit costs and delays, fueling traders' confidence in the East Africa's busiest corridor. The one stop border post (OSBP), he said had cut down clearance procedures from 16 to about "three or four" clearing congestion that previously saw a fleet of trucks line up, some for a week, as they waited for clearance. "It will take roughly two days with one clearing post," said Safari. The one stop post, he said, had also sealed revenue loopholes occasioned by the manual system of clearance whereby clearing and forwarding agents could easily collude with customs agents at the border.

Source: Standard Digital April 22, 2017 18:45 UTC