Kenyan govt officials behind child & organ theft unmasked

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As police close in unraveling a child theft syndicate led by top Nairobi politician’s daughter, concerns have continued to emerge on how safe our children are.

Kenya has often been pointed as one of the key origin and transit centres of the lucrative global criminal syndicate with children from poor homes being the major victims.

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They are trafficked  to European nations where they are used for medical experiments while some land in the hands of unscrupulous and vicious cartels who harvest their organs for sale in the black market.

The intricate network with deep tentacles in State organs includes the Judiciary — with two magistrates and a lawyer working to expedite the adoption of the children – the  National Police Service and Immigration department where officers are paid to facilitate the illegal trade.

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Reports indicate that the syndicate is paid between Sh10 million and Sh15 million for every child taken to Europe as a guinea pig for medical experiments.

The US State Department ranks Kenya at Tier 2 since the Government does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so.

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In Kenya, illegal adoption agencies have used technocrats, political offices and even tried to use diplomatic offices to advance their “saviours to Kenyan child initiative”, while in actual sense they are benefiting from the exorbitant fees paid to them.

“They sell a picture of a needy child requiring a loving family. This story is told to people and officers outside the adoption profession to invoke emotion, sympathy and pity of such a needy child in a manner irresistible to those hearing to unknowingly deny them support,” the report states and further describes them as daring, ruthless, unmoved and heartless.

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The report also established that leaving infants to private entities has proved to be a disaster as they are “merciless and act as mercenaries organised against the children and their families”.

Kenya has in recent years featured prominently as both a source and key destination and transit location for international child and human trafficking crimes.

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According to the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014, by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Kenya is cited as one of the countries that are in denial and neglect when it comes to reporting or prosecuting cases of human trafficking and as a source, transit and destination country in the vice.

A global alarm issued in June, 2014 by the Expert Group of the Hague Convention on inter-country Adoptions called upon state parties to take action against profit driven inter-country adoptions and child trafficking.

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