Several Ethiopians are using Uganda as a transit route, especially to Lebanon, the Deputy Coordinator prevention of trafficking ministry of internal Affairs Agnes Igoye has said.
On 22nd June, Igoye told the media that about 8 Ethiopians had been intercepted as they attempted to go through Malaba and in transit to Lebanon, according to the reports from the airport.
According to Igoye, on 9th June, another 4 Ethiopians were intercepted at the airport headed for Lebanon.
They arrested one suspect an Ethiopian national identified as Mohamed Muhammad Abashir.
She applauded the director of citizenship and immigration control because the commissioner for immigration issued a directive putting all borders on alert about this influx.
“As you realize one time, it was Burundi girls. Now we are seeing Ethiopians, they're using Kenya as a Transit as well as Uganda. So they issued an alert for all our immigration officers and as we speak on the 2nd, 6 Ethiopians showed up again at Malaba border claiming this time to be going to Beirut but through the airport,” says Igoye.
The immigration officers had to liaise with the counterparts on the Kenyan side only to realize the same girls had been denied entry from Busia.
Yesterday Sunday, Linus Omaino a taxi driver showed up at immigration with eight passports of Ethiopians, 4 men and 4 women requesting clearance.
He was arrested and the passports confiscated. He was handed over to immigration to help lead the officers to the people who had sent him.
