Illegal immigrants!

When I travelled to Kampala in October last year, I was very disturbed to discover a number of illegal immigrants crossing back and forth from Kenya to Uganda without any immigration checks, no passports and no travel documents. As a matter of fact, they had not even paid for their transportation yet they were happy enough to edge us, the paid up passengers, off our seats and were threatening to help themselves to our water and snacks!

The strangest thing about these stowaways is that they were content to just go back and forth between the two countries, never disembarking. At some point I remember wondering whether they are originally from Kenya, or from Uganda.....or perhaps from neither. Perhaps they were from a different country all together.

My greatest worry however was that one of them might take a fancy to me and decide to get off the bus and follow me home. So as I got of the Akamba bus, I picked my luggage gingerly, looked it over and shook every item thoroughly to make sure I did not inadvertently go home with one of the border crossing, freeloading disgusting cockroaches that had infested the bus!