- Police on patrol along Mwiki-Njiru Road stumbled on the body which had an Ethiopian identity card bearing the name of Jemesgen Woloro Mujomo.
- In January alone, police said five Ethiopians died in separate incidents while being smuggled through Kenya.
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Detectives are investigating the death of an Ethiopian man whose body was discovered on the roadside in Mwiki area, Nairobi.
The body looked emaciated when it was discovered on Wednesday, March 27 at night, police said.
Police on patrol along Mwiki-Njiru Road stumbled on the body which had an Ethiopian identity card bearing the name of Jemesgen Woloro Mujomo born in 1994.
According to police, the body did not have visible injuries. They moved it to the mortuary pending autopsy.
The detectives believe the victim is among dozens who are smuggled into the country.
An investigation is ongoing to get more on who was behind the death.
Dozens of immigrants from Ethiopia and Eritrea pass through Kenya to other parts of the continent including Tanzania, South Africa, and the Middle East for greener pastures.
In January alone, police said five Ethiopians died in separate incidents while being smuggled through Kenya.
Police say they are fighting the smuggling and trafficking of the groups from Ethiopia and Eritrea, which they said is on a rising scale.
More than 500 Ethiopians were in January alone rescued from smugglers, police statistics show.
Tens of Ethiopians are smuggled in a worrying trend, officials say.
According to police, most of the aliens from Ethiopia use the Moyale route and try their luck as they head to South Africa and the Middle East.
Tens of the aliens are usually arrested in various places in the country as they wait to be moved to their next destinations.
Officials from the Transnational Organized Crime are conducting joint operations to deal with the issue of human smuggling and trafficking.
Most of those arrested come to Kenya to seek jobs or are in transit.
Police said it's puzzling how the immigrants manage to evade many police roadblocks mounted from the Moyale border where they use to Nairobi because they travel in groups.
There are more than 20 roadblocks on the stretch, which raises the seriousness of the security agents taming the practice.