The government has repatriated 60 aliens of Ethiopian nationalities following a court order.
The lot was on Friday repatriated after a Machakos court freed them early this week.
They included the 56 aliens arrested in their hideout at a house in Githunguri within the Mlolongo division on October 25 and four others arrested in Athi River, Machakos County.
All the 60 men were early Friday picked up from the Mavoko SNP police station, where they had been remanded since their arrests by security personnel assigned to repatriate them. The matter was reported to the same station as the repatriation of aliens report at 7.45 am.
They were taken to the Moyale border for handing over to the Ethiopian authorities.
“On 26/10/2024 at 1500 HRS, the 60 aliens were brought into the station by the OCS Muungano police station, all of Ethiopian origin, for safe custody. On 30/10/2024, they were all taken to Mavoko Law Court and charged with the offence of being in the country illegally,” a police report seen by the Star reads in part.
Police said a convoy under senior police officers ferrying the Ethiopians left Mavoko SNP police station to Moyale border point at 7.45 am Friday.
They were all in good condition. Resident Magistrate Silas Kandie, sitting in Mavoko Law Courts on Wednesday, discharged all the suspects and ordered the state to facilitate their repatriation.
The court noted that the suspects had been held against the law and treated inhumanly.
“The court shall not impose a penal consequence. They are all discharged as listed in the charge sheet under Section 35(1) of the penal code,” Kandie stated in the order seen by the Star. “
"The government to facilitate repatriation to the county of origin. They may be held as progress commences. The translator will be paid his translation fees. The investigation officer is to inform the court of the progress on 1/11/2024."
Their discharge came barely a day after Kahawa Senior Principal Magistrate’s Court ordered the repatriation of the 19 Ethiopians remanded at Joska police station for being in the country illegally. The same court had earlier ordered their placement in the remand following Criminal Case NO. E. 102 OF 2024.
On Tuesday, they refused to take their breakfast, lunch, and supper and instead cried loudly after acting dead; they refused to speak. “
The 19 Ethiopian aliens who were remanded at the station for being in the country illegally pending repatriation today agitated; they have overstayed in custody for more than two months,” a police report seen by the Star reads in part.
“They are demanding to be repatriated back to their country of origin. They refused to take tea, speak, and are crying loudly."
A video seen by the Star shows the remandees crying loudly inside the police cells at the station. Independent sources told the Star that it wasn’t the first time the aliens refused to eat in the cells.
