- The suspects, all male, are aged 19, 22, 24 and 29 now await arraigment on charges of being unlawfully present in the country.
- Police said the suspects will be arraigned at Mavoko Law Courts on Thursday.
Four foreign nationals who police say are Ethiopians were on Wednesday arrested in Mlolongo, Machakos county for allegedly being in the country illegally.
Police said the four did not have the necessary legal documents allowing them to be in Kenya.
The matter was reported at Mlolongo police station at 6.30pm.
"Police officers on normal patrol within Mlolongo township encountered four suspiciously looking and exhausted individuals. They approached them and upon inquiry, the four were established to be Ethiopians," a police report seen by the Star reads in part.
The suspects, all male, are aged 19, 22, 24 and 29 respectively.
"They didn't have any documents allowing them to be in the country and were arrested," the report adds.
Police said the suspects will be arraigned at Mavoko Law Courts on Thursday.
They will be charged with being unlawfully present in the country.
DCI detectives attached to Mlolongo police station have launched investigations into the incident.
Some Ethiopians have been fleeing their country since the Tigray region was plunged into conflict in 2020.
Several million of them need humanitarian assistance to overcome food insecurity and climate crises and the repercussions of the conflict.
The conflict doubled wih a prolonged drought between 2020 and 2023 severely affected communities with aid agencies putting those in need of humanitarian assistance at over 20 million people.
Some of those fleeing have been using Kenya as a transit point en route to European countries where they hope to be admitted as refugees.