Section 47 of Kenya Railways Corporation Act CAP 397: Goods may be sold to pay fares, rates, etc.

(1) Where any person fails to pay on demand made by an authorized employee any fare, rate or charge due from him as a passenger or in respect of any goods, the Corporation may detain the whole or any part of such goods including the luggage of the passenger or, if the value of the goods is, in the opinion of the authorised employee insufficient to pay for the rate or charge due or if they have been removed from the possession of the Corporation, any other goods of such person which may be in, or may thereafter come into, the possession of the Corporation.
(2) Where any goods have been detained under subsection (1), the Corporation may, if the fare, rate or charge due is not sooner paid, sell by public auction sufficient of such goods to produce the fare, rate or charge so owing and all the expenses of such detention and sale; and in the case of— (a) perishable goods, such auction may take place at once;
(b) any other goods, such auction may take place on the expiration of at
least fifteen days’ notice, published in one or more local newspapers, of the intended auction:
Provided that no imported goods shall be sold under this section until they have been entered for home consumption in accordance with the provisions of the customs laws.
(3) The Corporation may, out of the proceeds of any sale effected under subsection (2), retain a sum equal to the fare, rate or charge due and the expenses of the detention and sale and shall deliver the balance, if any, of such proceeds together with such of the goods, if any, as remain unsold to the person appearing to the Managing Director to be entitled thereto:
Provided that if such person fails, after notice so to do, to remove within a reasonable time the goods, if any, remaining unsold, the Corporation may sell such goods and dispose of the proceeds of such sale in accordance with provisions of this section.
(4) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the right of the Corporation to recover any such fare, rate or charge, or any part thereof, by any other lawful means.