NAIROBI, Kenya
The government of Kenya has kicked off a crackdown to kick out Asians who are in the country illegally, K24 Digital can now reveal.
On Thursday,
September 30, police and immigration officials started implementing the orders
which were issued by Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho to flush out
the foreigners who are believed to be from Pakistan.
The officers
raided Waiyaki Real Gardens which is located along the busy Waiyaki Way where
they found hundreds of the foreigners.
They were
going through their travel documents and it has emerged that majority of them
came from Pakistan and were headed to Saudi Arabia.
“We want to
ensure that all of them have the right documents that show how they arrived in
the country,” said an official who spoke in confidence to this reporter.
On Wednesday
night, officers also started mapping areas where the Pakistan nationals are
residing.
One of the areas, that has a huge number of the foreigners is Ongata Rongai in Kajiado County- where more than 800 of them are living.
K24 Digital has established that the foreigners who have
questionable documents are being taken to Cooperative University which is
located in Nairobi.
A source that
spoke in confidence and who is an immigration official said that the foreigners
will be assembled at the university before they are deported.
“Plans are
underway to have the foreigners kicked out of the country. A number of them
have already been nabbed,” the source said.
The country
has seen an influx in the number of Pakistan nationals who are residing in the
country which caught the attention of the government.
This comes
barely 12 hours after an order was issued by Kibicho that it is established
whether the Pakistans are in the country legally.
This is after
Kenyans demanded answers following a number of videos that showed buses
ferrying a large number of immigrants.
According to
Kibicho majority of the travellers had been handed Transit Visas to Saudi
Arabia after they arrived in Kenya.
He said that
the trend was worrying because of the Covid-19 pandemic and there was a need
for the country to be keen on the matter.
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