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1,200 seized in Kenya crackdown on immigrants
Suspected Somali illegal immigrants stand inside the Kibera Magistrates Court in Kenya's capital Nairobi January 18, 2010. Kenyan security forces raided a mainly Somali suburb of the capital during the week, arresting scores of people following violence at a protest two days earlier blamed on extremists from the lawless Horn of Africa nation. Photo/REUTERS
Posted Thursday, January 21 2010 at 22:30
More than 1,200 people have been rounded up in a countrywide swoop on illegal immigrants’ dens. Many of them had forged documents. Police say they arrested 1,240 foreigners, but government spokesman Alfred Mutua placed the figure at 2,000.
Most of them are from lawless Somalia, and they include two army generals, 11 MPs and other officials of the Transitional Federal Government, embroiled in a war with the al-Shabaab militia.
One of the MPs arrested was among 200 foreigners charged in court, allegedly for carrying fake documents. “Any foreigner living in Kenya should have permission from the nationals, through their government. Continued stay of foreigners, whose mission is not known by the government is a threat to security,” Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said.
Ethiopians, Rwandans, Tanzanians, Ugandans, Burundians as well as Mozambique nationals, were also rounded up. In Nairobi, 45 refugees were found to have sneaked into the city from camps in Northern Kenya. The government was in the process of handing them over to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Mr Kiraithe said 212 foreigners were arrested in Rift Valley, 123 in Central, 60 in Coast, 337 in North Eastern, 20 in Nyanza and 23 in Eastern. Another 465 were seized in Nairobi, after a three-day crackdown in Eastleigh, Komarock, South B and the city centre.
The raids were conducted by the anti-terror police detectives, backed General Service Unit (GSU) officers and Administration Police.
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Submitted by knyesuPosted January 23, 2010 11:51 AM
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Submitted by aabzaka
it seems kenyans are the unappreciative, arrogant, inhumane beings because they wanna take advantage of the somalis properties. somalis prove to be smart and enthusiastic in what they do and they r always successful. its no wonder kenyans themselves work for them, what a shame. here in the US, somalis have become very rich and well known, and by the way i feel somalis can even raise up the money to buy a poor country like kenya if it was for sale...even though am a kenyan, am ashamed by them for real..
Posted January 23, 2010 10:15 AM -
Submitted by Siribaa2010
Its now official. Kenyans are xenophopic! Its so unfortunate that no one is paying attention to the fact that there is a community called Kenyan-Somalis who are no less citizens than Kikuyus. Why the discrimination? Open your eyes guys! We exclusively inhabit the third largest region in Kenya. Are we the only community who spill over borders? NO. The Masai's, Luhyas, Pokot and Luos all do. If we are really as unwanted as such then Kindly let us secede with our region. We can be a viable state on our own!
Posted January 23, 2010 08:37 AM -
Submitted by wayel
This is the reason why Africa is always far more behind than any other continent around the world. I can never recall a time when African nations conducted policies of their own without foreign influences.
Posted January 23, 2010 08:28 AM -
Submitted by tritac
Before the fabrication of the East African pseudo-nation in the so-called postcolonial era, not a single native African had ever imagined that a state like Kenya could possibly exist. There is nothing to logically unite the Luo, the Maasai, the Borana Oromo, and the Ogaden Somalis with one another and with the Kikuyu and the other Mt. Kenya tribes. But the English colonial strategists needed to combine their Anti-Islamic hysteria with their Anti-African hatred, thus plunging all the indigenous peoples to a calamitous swamp of misery, underdevelopment, and lamentation.
Posted January 23, 2010 08:27 AM
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How can the govt let immigrants flock into the country like its a toilet, n immigrants who only being guns, crime and stupid muslim terrorism. Kick them all out,,make it a year round search for them