Kenya offered temporary status to undocumented East African traders amid a crackdown on informal foreign businesses. [1] The Monitor filed the amnesty window. [1] A 90-day regularization is not a ban. Print the window. Do not print a sealed border.

Visa-free entry is not a work permit. Leave a named later revocation table to the edition that owns a named table. Print temporary. Print not a ban.

Print the window. Monday is not a sealed Kenya. Ninety days is still a window, not a ban. Print temporary as Monday's named hold. Informal hawkers are still not a sealed border. Print the window as still a 90-day hold. Print temporary as still not a ban. Print 90 days as still a window.

Ninety-day windows are how states legalize what they can't prevent. Informal traders get papers; the state gets a count. Monday's window serves both.

Windows close; traders adapt. Monday's window opens the count. Ninety days decide who stays.

Decided stays take ninety days; Monday counts them. Counting is the update. Papers precede status.

Monday opens a count, not a census. Informal stalls get a legal window. The state is buying time with paper.

Undocumented East African hawkers got a 90-day regularization window, not a padlock. The Monitor called it temporary status amid a crackdown. Visa-free entry still does not hire anyone. Nairobi is counting stalls, not sealing the border.
Visa-free entry still does not hire anyone. The window is 90 days, not a padlock. Nairobi is counting stalls.

Visa-free entry still does not hire anyone. Nairobi is counting stalls. Monday counts stalls, not a sealed border.

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos