Six Tanzanians arrested in Embu for being in Kenya illegally will be repatriated back to their country immediately, a court has ruled.
The six had been begging in the town pretending to be disabled as well as posing as sick to receive alms from residents.
Days after a similar scam involving foreigners was exposed in Nairobi, the racket seems to have moved to smaller towns.
According to the police, the culprits were being dropped in the town’s Central Business District in the morning by a saloon vehicle which picked them in the evening.
On the day of the arrest, they were picked from the lodge counting the day’s earnings which amounted to Sh8,500.
Helen Mangu Kiruru, Eliza Sumbuku, Josphine Majula, Marita Kasambi, Doris Basede and Patrol Mangu pleaded guilty for being in the country illegally and contravening the immigration act before resident magistrate Eunice Nyutu .
The magistrate ordered that the five women and one man be repatriated to their country within the shortest time possible after treating them as first offenders.
The foreigners said that they had come into the country with dreams of making a break after hearing of better opportunities here.
“My parents informed me that there are better opportunities in Kenya and advised me to accompany my aunt (Josphine Majula) for a fresh break in life,” said Patrol Mangu.
The aliens were arrested in a lodging in Embu after the public alerted the police who trailed the suspects as they were being dropped in the morning and picked in the evening.
According to the Embu west DC Maalim Mohamed, the public was easily wooed after seeing bandages painted in red and urinary catheters attached to the culprits bodies.
“They told us that they had heard that Kenyans have pity at the disadvantaged members of the society and that they had come to try their luck,” said the DC adding that they were contravening the spirit of the East Africa Community which allowed for free movement of the residents of member states across the region from July.
The six were from Brieda district in Tanzania.
A worker at the lodge told the Nation that the culprits used to purchase beer from the counter and take it to their rooms.
Source: Daily Nation
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