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Three Human Traffickers Arrested As Sixty Trafficking Victims Rescued In Embakasi

SK 2 years ago 1 min read

The Thursday rescue of 60 victims and the arrest of three alleged human traffickers were the results of a Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) sting operation against a human trafficking organization operating in the Horn of Africa region.

According to DCI’s Transnational and Organized Crime Unit, the victims, who ranged in age from 14 to 50, were being detained at an apartment in Embakasi’s Tassia neighborhood while being transported to be sold as slaves abroad.

They are thought to have entered illegally from two countries that border Kenya to the north.

“Acting on intelligence leads, sleuths traced the victims to a residential apartment within Tassia in Embakasi, Nairobi County. After securing the perimeter of the premise, the perceptive officers gained entry into the apartment, only to be greeted with hysterical faces of the victims, inhumanely bundled up in one room,” DCI said in a statement.

The victims were allegedly being confined there briefly while they anticipated being taken abroad by their alleged hosts, according to police.

Investigators were able to detain three suspects of Somali descent in connection with the event due to their claimed connections to a human trafficking organization operating in the Horn of Africa.

“The three were identified as Mohammed Omar Aden, 29, Halima Mohammed Osman, 43, and 23-year-old Sala Yusuf,” said DCI.

In Nairobi, the accused are being detained at several police stations while they await arraignment.