NAIROBI – Ibhodi yabakhenkethi yaseKenya (i-KTB) ivakalise ithemba lokudlula isigidi esinye sophawu lokufika kwabakhenkethi kulo nyaka.
UMlawuli oLawulayo we-KTB u-Mureithi Ndegwa uthe ngoLwesibini ukuba isiqingatha sokuqala soqikelelo lwabakhenkethi lubonisa ukuba abantu abafikayo elizweni bagqithise abo babonwa ngo-2007, unyaka webenchmark yaseKenya yabakhenkethi abaphezulu babakhenkethi.
“Sijonga amanani ukusuka ngoJanuwari ukuya kuJuni (kwaye) sibona amathuba okuba singenza ngcono kakhulu kunowama-2007,” utshilo uMnu Ndegwa.
Amanani-nkcazo asuka kwi-KTB abonisa ukuba abafikayo kwiinyanga ezintandathu zokuqala bakhule ngeepesenti ezingama-20.5 ukuya kuma-403,996, xa kuthelekiswa nama-400,362 abafikayo ababonelelwe ngowama-2007.
Ngo-2007, ilizwe lafumana i-Sh63.5 yeebhiliyoni kubakhenkethi abayi-1,048,732. Ukukhula kweli candelo kuye kwaphoxwa ziziphumo ezidityanisiweyo zobundlobongela basemva konyulo kunye nengxaki yemali yehlabathi eye yacutha izixhobo zokuhamba.
Iziphumo zekota yokuqala zika-2010 ezikhutshwe ngoMeyi zibonise ukuba icandelo libhale ukunyuka kwe-16 lepesenti yabantu abafika kumazwe ngamazwe.
Umnumzana Ndegwa ubalule ukukhula kwiinzame zolwahlulo lweemarike ezibone ukuba iimarike ezisakhulayo ezifana neTshayina kunye nommandla we (Arabian) weGulf zidlala indima enkulu kunye neemarike zemveli.
Eyona nto inika umdla kwi-KTB kukunyuka kokwakhiwa kwabahambi bezoshishino abaya kweli lizwe.
“Kuye kwakho ukwanda ngokwenani labakhenkethi ngokubhekiselele kwinjongo yotyelelo nabahambi bezoshishino benyuka kakhulu,” utshilo kodwa khange akwazi kwangoko ukunika amanani achanekileyo.
U-MD ukhawuleze wacela umngeni kubantu abachaphazelekayo kushishino ukuba baphucule amaziko abo ngeenzame zokutsala abakhenkethi abaninzi.
“Ngokwento esiyivayo malunga nokuhlaliswa kweebhedi izinto zinyukela phezulu nangona kusenokwenziwa okuninzi,” utshilo.
