48 Somalis charged for lack of papers

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Extracts from the Daily Nation

 

By PAMELA CHEPKEMEI

Fourty-Eight Somali nationals were yesterday remanded in custody to enable their lawyer obtain instructions from them through an interpreter.

 

The foreigners including 35 women and 13 men are accused of being in the country illegally, had appeared before Nairobi Chief Magistrate Boaz Olao but lawyer Stephen Owino requested that the case be adjourned .

 

The magistrate directed that the suspects be brought to court today to answer the charges.

 

They were arrested on Wednesday evening that Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

 

The lawyer asked the magistrate to allow 13 women who had infants to hand them over to the relatives but Mr Olao said they did not need the court's permission to do so.

[Oocyte]

It is sad how Somalis are suffering in Kenya.

They would rather go back home...

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When your country is on fire and you are homeless this is what happens to you. You get kicked wherever you are. No one is to blame but the shear stupidity of our own people. Today Somalis are victims in many countries and are treated as filth in some places. Its a disgrace to see our people surfer like they do due to some few Corrupt leaders who wouldnt know the plight of their own people.

[StarGazer]

That's sad to read. Many countries are starting to show how inconvient it is for them to take in refugees.

Shaqsii, if your own country doesn't care about your well being why should others be sympathetic towards you? That's the attitude that's being transmitted nowadays.

[Valenteenah.]

Shaqsii.........u said what I was thinking. Very sad.