20 more victims of human trafficking rescued by DCI

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23 Kenyans suspected to be human trafficking victims were rescued by Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)  from a house in Drumville Estate, Kamulu on Monday evening.

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.

Those rescued included 22 women, aged between 21 years and 40 years, and a 38-year-old male.

Police revealed that the victims were being held awaiting trafficking to Saudi Arabia. Police added that detectives investigating the matter are pursuing the traffickers to face the law.

In the last several months, police officers in Nairobi have rescued several foreigners from human traffickers.

In 2017, the government reported 35 investigations of potential trafficking cases, compared to 530 in 2016. Many of them included smuggling and trafficking-related crimes.

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