China issues stern warning to citizens living in Kenya

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Chinese ambassador to Kenya Wu Peng has warned that China will punish and deport its citizens found breaking the law.

This comes after four Chinese nationals in Lodwar were nabbed for allegedly assaulting a roads engineer.  

According to Peng, China stresses the need for its citizens working or investing in foreign countries to maintain law and order just as they do in their home country.

“We will not hesitate to punish our citizens found breaking the law,” Peng said during the Sixth Press Club meeting organised by the Kenya Editors Guild.

The arrest of the four, Liu Jiang, Wang Kai, Zhao Liangbin and Li Shaoqing comes in the wake of protests by 400 workers employed by the Chinese contractors.

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China Railway Engineering Group Company Limited officials are accused of attacking Eng Rodgers Imasa, who was inspecting the Loichangamak-Lodwar road on Friday.

The envoy’s statement follows the order by Interior CS Fred Matiang’i to deport 17 foreigners over their involvement in illegal gambling business in the country.

According to the CS, the foreigners were in the country without the relevant work permits. Those ejected consisted of Chinese, Turkish and Spanish nationals.

On Monday while speaking during a Betting Control and Licensing Board stakeholders’ forum at the Kenya School of Government (KSG), Matiang’i stated that the government would not allow people to come into the country and engage in unlawful businesses.

He noted that some foreigners had the habit of applying for work permits for different businesses and ended up engaging in gambling.

He warned those running gambling businesses without licenses risked deportation.

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In his address, Matiang’i directed the State Department for Immigration Gordon Kihalangwa to review the work permits of all foreigners doing business in the country.

Kenya has the highest number of betting youth, according to a recent GeoPoll rapid survey carried out among youth between the ages of 17-35 in Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya.

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Government statistics have revealed that more than 500,000 Kenyans mostly youths have been blacklisted by the credit reference bureaus (CRB) for failure to repay loans borrowed for gambling.

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