Two Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) officers have been arrested for failing to repatriate four Somali nationals who were found to be in Kenya illegally.
Constable Noah Songony of ATPU Garissa and Constable Elkana Kemboi of ATPU Lamu were arrested by detectives from the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) and are detained at Capitol Hill police station in Nairobi.
A third officer has also been summoned and the three are to be charged in court on April 4, 2023.
The IAU detectives launched the probe after the three officers, then based at the Busia border, were found to have colluded with the Somali nationals and failed to repatriate them.
The foreigners sneaked into the country through Uganda and were arrested. The court ordered that they be taken back to their country and were handed over to the three arrested officers.
The foreigners were later released and found in the country. Investigation reveals that rogue officers and some government officials are colluding with aliens to get into the country while those ordered to be repatriated by court are also released and are living freely in the country.
In one of the cases under investigation, a former Assistant Chief from Tana River and a resident of Eastleigh are said to be helping foreigners acquire national ID cards.
“We are investigating a report that on December 2 last year, the former government official took two foreigners to Makadara Huduma Centre to apply for the national IDs. It is suspected that he is also hosting several foreigners in Eastleigh,”said a senior detective.
