The Internet has been on fire since yesterday when news broke that Sports CS Rashid Echesa was involved in illegally aiding the entry of some eight Pakistani women into the Country.
According to Lawyer Ondieki, the eight cultural dancers from Pakistan were allowed to enter into the country by Mr Echesa to promote trans-national cultures.
Ondieki told Senior Principal Magistrate at the Milimani Law Courts Mr Kennedy Cheruiyot that the eight girls who were arrested at Balle Balle Club at Parklands “are in the country legally with full permission of CS Echesa.
He pleaded with the magistrate to release the girls to be detained in a safe house where Police can access them whenever they want as they investigate the owner of Balle Balle Club who flew the girls into Kenya.
“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,” Mr Ondieki told the magistrate.
He said it was very regretful that Police are stifling the order of CS Echesa allowing the girls to perform in Kenya upto January 18, 2019.
He said each of the girls paid the Immigration Department Sh45,000 to be issued with the special passes.
“What government are the Police serving and what government is Mr Echesa serving. Aren’t they serving the same regime,” Mr Ondieki wondered.
The eight belly dancers, alongside one Indian dancer were last evening deported for violating terms of their temporary passes that allowed them into Kenya, allegedly to promote transnational culture.
However, the women, all aged above 18 and suspected to have been victims of human trafficking were arrested at a social club in Parklands, and arraigned in court on charges of being in the country illegally.
A statement from the Ministry of Interior Saturday evening said the women had been deported for violating regulation 26 (3) of of Kenya Citizenship and Migration regulations, by engaging in activities outside of what was specified in their entry documents.
“Some have already left and last batch will leave at midnight.
“Investigations are still going on to establish the circumstances in which the women came into Kenya ostensibly to promote transnational culture but ended up in suspicious places,” Interior spokeswoman Wangui Muchiri said.