By Joseph Wangui, NAIROBI Kenya
Kenya's Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Fred Matiang'i has
ordered the deportation of four Chinese nationals taken to court over
assaulting a Kenyan worker.
Chinese nationals Yu Ling, Deng Hailan, Ou Qiang, and Chang Yueping, who are accused of assaulting a Kenyan employee at Chez Wou Restaurant in Kileleshwa, Nairobi |
The four are Deng
Hailan, Chang Yueping, Ou Qiang and Yu Ling.
Deng is suspected to
have caned waiter Simon Osako Silo over lateness before dismissing him.
They were arrested on
February 9 after detectives from Kilimani raided Chez Wou Restaurant in Nairobi
suburb Kileleshwa.
CS Matiang'i's order
came shortly after Milimani Principal Magistrate Hellen Okwani allowed police
to detain the four for 15 days to investigate assault and immigration offences.
State prosecutors
Jacinta Nyamosi and Everlyn Onunga noted in court on Thursday that the
foreigners lacked work permits and that police were yet to interrogate the
worker.
Nyamosi said they
entered the country last year on visitors' visas whose validity period had
lapsed.
Kenya's Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i |
Matiang'i has in the
past issued orders for the deportation of four Chinese nationals found engaging
in business activities at Gikomba market in Nairobi.
He noted in June 2019
that the four were in the country illegally.
The CS said at the time
that all foreigners working as small scale traders in Kenya would be deported.
"We do not have a
classification of foreign traders coming into the country to conduct trade or
hawk," he explained.
Last May, the minister
ordered a review of the work permits of foreigners who had applied to conduct
other businesses but ended up investing in the betting industry. - Daily Nation
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