Uhuru’s CS caught in human trafficking probe with 8 Pakistan girls

Image result for echesaA magistrate has ordered eight girls from Pakistan flown into the country as cultural dancers be kept in a safe house to enable police establish whether they are victims of human trafficking.

Senior Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot, sitting at the Milimani Law Courts, gave the order after being furnished with special permits issued to the eight foreign girls by Culture Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa.

Defence lawyer Evans Ondieki told Mr Cheruiyot that the eight girls, who were arrested at Balle Balle Club at Parklands on January 1, “are in the country legally with the full permission of CS Echesa”.

Mr Ondieki said the cultural dancers were allowed to enter into the country by Mr Echesa to promote trans-national cultures.

The lawyer pleaded with the magistrate to release the girls to be detained in a safe house where police can access them whenever they want as they investigate the owner of the club, who flew them into Kenya.

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The lawyer further said it was regretful that police were stifling Mr Echesa’s order that allowed the girls to perform in Kenya up to January 18.

He said each of them paid the Immigration Department Sh45,000 to be issued with special passes.

“What government are the police serving and what government is Mr Echesa serving? Aren’t they serving the same regime?” Mr Ondieki wondered.

“Are police struggling to implement the directive of Mr Echesa?”

Human trafficking suspects Mika Osichiro, Safendra Kumar Sonwani

He prevailed upon the court to release the girls to Mr Nadeem Khan of Blue Heart, a non-governmental organisation against Human trafficking, Violence and Child Abuse, to place them in a safe house where “only him and police can access them for interrogation.”

The eight were released on a free bond.

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