Kenyans have been blacklisted from seeking hospitality facilities in hotels in the Chinese city of Guangzhou for the past three weeks.
According to BBC, the explicit orders by the Chinese Police Department are said to have barred Kenyans, Ugandans and Nigerians from accessing hotels within a 50 Kilometres radius.
According to Juliet Hatanga, a Senior Magistrate from Uganda who was turned away by a hotel in the city, the police implemented the blanket ban on the visitors from Africa after a crime suspected to have been committed by an unidentified African.
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"Without confirming whether the suspect was male or female; Just because one black person suspected to be of Kenyan, Ugandan or Nigerian nationality committed a crime, all of us were condemned.
"I feel horrible. I think its unfair especially when our country has been so welcoming to the Chinese government. Our president has been giving them tax exemptions, made them comfortable, given them land, the racial profiling for me did not go well. I feel as a State, we have been insulted," the Ugandan Magistrate quipped.
Hatanga indicates that on calling the Ugandan Consulate in China, she was informed that the discriminatory practice has been ongoing for weeks.
"Honestly, I don't think I will ever go back to that country. Even if I get invited for the greatest of events," Justice Hatanga quipped.
The discriminatory police advice to Guangzhou hotels telling them not to take bookings from guests of the African descent comes shortly after the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Nairobi was marred with claims of racism.
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Government Spokesman Eric Kiraithe has in the past refuted the claims indicating that there could be misconceptions on the Chinese behaviour owing to cultural differences between the two countries.
