NAIROBI (Mareeg)—Two Kenyan police have torn an Identity letter from a Somali immigrant boy in Eastliegh neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya, witnesses told Mareeg Online on Wednesday.
“The young Somali boy had an alien letter from the Kenyan government. Two policemen stopped and asked him his ID, when he showed his ID letter one of the policemen tore the letter in bits and arrested the boy,” said a witness who requested not to be named.
The move comes as the Kenyan police have arrested more eight hundred Somali immigrants. More of the Somali immigrants had legal letters.
“What we see in Eastliegh these days is a clear discrimination against the Somali people who have businesses and invested in this country,” said a businesswoman who spoke Mareeg online with condition of anonymity.
“There are more other foreigners in this country like the Indians and Sudanese and Ethiopians, no one is harassing them,” she added.
Hassan Dahir, a Somali refugee man said he had UNHCR mandate letter to stay in Kenya legally, but his relatives had to pay 60,000 Kenyan Shilling (800 US dollars) to police to release him from a jail in the Industrial Area in Nairobi.
Mareeg Online
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