Bartamaha (Nairobi):- Police in Kilifi arrested eight Somalis among them a one-year-old baby boy and a Kenyan student at a roadblock on the Malindi-Mombasa highway.

According to Kilifi OCPD Clement Wangai, traffic police on normal roadblock checks stopped a private vehicle heading to Mombasa from Malindi on Monday and found a Somali man, his wife and their baby boy who had no immigration documents.

Mr Wangai said the foreigners were accompanied by a 17-year-old boy who is believed to be a student of a primary school owned by a church at Watamu.

The police boss said they suspected the Kenyan youth was directing the foreigners to their destination.

At the same roadblock at Mkoroshoni area about two kilometres from Kilifi town, the police arrested five Somali youth who were travelling to Mombasa from Garissa.

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Wangai said during interrogation, the youth aged 20 and 33 could not express themselves in English or Kiswahili, and lacked immigration documents. The police boss said the suspected foreigners were taken to Kilifi Police Station.

“The suspects are being held at Kilifi police station and we are going to take them to court to face charges of being in the country illegally,” said Wangai.

Recently, Police arrested 74 foreigners for being in the country illegally. In Taita-Taveta, 57 Ethiopians were arrested on their way to Mombasa from Nairobi while 17 were intercepted on Nairobi-Nyeri highway.

The arrest brings to more than 70 the number of illegal immigrants so far arrested in Taita-Taveta County in the past two weeks. This is also the largest number of foreigners so far arrested.

Taita OCPD Nathaniel Aseneka said 56 men and a woman were arrested at Caltex filling station roadblock in Voi town. One of the suspects, however, escaped and police are still looking for him.

Police arrested 17 Ethiopians as they were travelling to Nairobi from Isiolo on Nairobi-Nyeri highway at Huhi area, near Makuyu town.

Elsewhere, prisons in Isiolo and Marsabit are overcrowded with Ethiopian inmates, mainly victims of human smuggling.

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Source:- The standardmedia.

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