Kenyan government has given South Sudanese until the 20th of this month to collect goods that have been at the Mombasa port for more than a year without clearance, an official has said.

Some importers have been unable to pay clearance fees for their containers.

Mangar Gordon, Coordinator for the Northern Corridor Project, says the South Sudanese government has negotiated a deal to exempt goods that have been at the port for more than a year from custom clearance.

“Others [containers] stayed at the port for more than two years; All these containers piled up to more than three hundred containers,” Mr Gordon told Eye Radio.

He said the Kenyan government will take over and auction goods that will not have been claimed within the next seven days.

He added that President Salva Kiir and his counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta made the negotiations under the Northern Corridor. The notice to claim the goods was issued in February.