Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Achesa has now been reported to have been involved in an alleged human trafficking following the arrest of 8 Pakistani nationals at a Nairobi club.
According to his Defence lawyer Evans Ondieki while standing before Senior Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot said that the eight ladies were flown into the country as cultural dancers with the full permission of the CS.
In addition he said, each of the girls paid the Immigration Department Kshs 45,000 to be issued with the special passes allowing them to perform in the country until 18 January 2019.
“On humanitarian grounds, I urge this court to release these girls as they have not bathed for the last one week, health rules require women to fresh up and bath as many times as they can afford,” Ondieki told the magistrate.
The Magistrate ordered that the ladies be taken to a safe House until 08 Jan 2019 to pave way for police investigations to establish whether they are victims of human trafficking.
The ladies are expected in court on 08 January 2019 when the proprietor of Bella Bella Club, Safendra Kumar Sonwani, and his manager Mika Osichiro will be arraigned for prosecution of human trafficking.