OSINT SUMMARY, May 3, 2016
Twenty nine Uganda nationals were arrested on Tuesday for being in Kenya illegally.
Police report indicates seven were arrested in Kayole and 22 in Kasarani Estates of Nairobi.
The assailant lacked travel documents and upon interrogation they confessed they were on their way to Middle East where they had been promised jobs.
Middle East is the home of the deadly Islamic State terrorists group.
A man only identified as Mwaura was also apprehended for being allegedly behind the illegal immigration.
People have been promised foreign jobs in the only to find themselves in Jihadist camps in Somalia, Libya and Middle East especially in Syria.
Police has asked foreign nationals hiding in Nairobi (without proper documentation) to voluntarily surrender.
Separately,police crackdown has seen 146 people among them Somalis and Ethiopian arrested in Taita Taveta County for allegedly being in the country illegally.
The arrests in Nairobi and in Taita Taveta have been possible by the ‘Nyumba Kumi initiative’ tip-offs.
