Knowledge of Kiswahili is proof of belonging here

The BBC reports of an arraignment in Mbeya of a gentleman of British nationality trying to cross over to Malawi with a fake Tanzanian passport, the British nationality itself having been realized in an accidental manner while being frisked. As they say in Kiswahili ‘kamba hukatikia pembamba’ (a rope snaps where its thinnest), it was realized he was a crow among pigeons when he failed responding to questions posed in Kiswahili, implying his carrying of a Tanzanian passport was abnormal. If you are a Tanzanian you should know a bit of Kiswahili, we do not have our version of the TOEFL here but you are going to get caught somehow. Also the games he came to play are alien to us that’s how come they could not find a local player, this also makes him stand out. On how his local collaborators will come to be identified that’s police work but if you ask me, paper trail, how fake was his fake passport? ,if it was issued by the proper authorities and then tempered with, its serial numbers will tell who was issued with it originally. Again when and at what entry point did he come in?, his British passport should show this together with details of where he came from in that particular leg of his adventurous journey. Investigative work can be exciting if the guns and fist fighting are excluded, this comes naturally if you investigate sources of environmental pollutants as a routine. As for the Iqbals of this world, tell them to refine the planning sir, Tanzania can be a bit tricky, ask Boers of the apartheid era, and their puppets.