NAIROBI, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan police have arrested 34 more Ethiopians in the outskirts of Nairobi for being in the country illegally.
Juja divisional police commander Patricia Nasio said the aliens who had arrived in the country aboard a bus were arrested from a residential house after arriving in Juja area off Thika highway.
"Their being in the country is being contested and that is why we arrested them. We are looking for the owner of the house where they were found," Nasio said on Monday.
The police commander said the suspects were arrested and detained at the local police station and are expected in court on Monday.
The owner of the house where they were escaped. Juja police boss Patricia Nasio said the officers were alerted by locals.
The arrest comes after the police last week arrested 40 Ethiopians from a house in Nairobi for being in the country illegally.
The aliens aged between 10 and 25 could not speak in English and Swahili but told police through a translator they were headed for South Africa.
The police have on several occasions rounded up dozens of illegal immigrants, especially from Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea who have been discovered locked up in congested rooms in Kenyan towns and cities but the trade continues to thrive even as many were repatriated.
The immigrants are said to be using Kenya as their transit route to other countries such as South Africa or other European countries.
Many aliens from regional countries have managed to sneak in the county with the help of brokers after paying hundreds of shillings.
But refugee rights organizations and aid agencies have blamed poverty in Africa for the rising cases of human trafficking.
They said that the huge supply of labor both skilled and unskilled makes them vulnerable to criminal syndicates. Read more here
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