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Kenya police hold 89 illegal aliens (2) |
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22:04, July 12, 2007 |
"The suspects will be arraigned in court this week and charged with being in the country illegally,"said Kiraithe.
The arrest comes a week after five Indians were arrested in Nairobi for the same offence. The Indians got in to the country through the Mombasa Port ready to take up jobs in the Kenyan market.
The government has repeatedly blamed the high violent-crime rate in Kenya on the presence of many illegal immigrants, most of whom it said came from neighboring countries where guns could be obtained easily because of ongoing or past conflicts.
Kenya has an encampment policy for refugees, which requires that registered asylum-seekers live in designated refugee camps.
It has two such camps, including Dadaab in the east, near the Somali border, and Kakuma in the northwest, not far from the border with Sudan.
The country hosts a total of 240,000 refugees, the majority of whom come from Somalia and Sudan, according to UNHCR figures.
Source: Xinhua
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