Detectives have rescued 60 victims of human trafficking, who were being held at an apartment in Tassia, en-route for sale as slaves overseas.
According to a statement from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, detectives from the DCI’s Transnational & Organized Crime Unit, assisted by officers from Embakasi, tracked the victims to a residential apartment within Tassia in Embakasi, Nairobi County, during the meticulous crackdown on illegal immigrants.
The officers first secured the perimeter of the premises before gaining entry the into the apartment, only to be greeted with hysterical faces of the victims, inhumanely bundled up in one room.
The victims aged between 14 to 50 were being trafficked from two countries neighboring Kenya to the north against their will.
“Upon further inquiries, it was established that the 60 victims had been ferried to the location temporarily, as the traffickers sought alternative ways of transporting them outside the country undetected,” read part of the statement.
During the maneuver, three suspects of Somali origin were arrested on suspicion of being part of a larger human trafficking syndicate operating across the Horn of Africa.
The three were identified as Mohammed Omar Aden, 29, Halima Mohammed Osman, 43, and 23-year-old Sala Yusuf.
The victims and the suspects are currently being held at different police stations in Nairobi pending legal procedures.
