Immigration officials at JKIA on Friday arrested 71 foreigners from Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania who were travelling to Oman with fake visas.
Director of Immigration services Alexander Muteshi said the foreigners had travelled by bus to Kenya and were waiting for their passports to be stamped when officials realized the visas were not genuine.
They include 59 Ugandans, seven Burundians and five Tanzanians.
“We are planning to repatriate them to their respective countries. We are also investigating
to establish who gave them the fake Visas,” explained Muteshi.
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“We are in touch with their embassies and we plan to repatriate them as soon as possible. Their
countries are expected to foot the bill,” said Muteshi," he added.
Kenya is a hub because most of these airlines prefer Nairobi as their point of exit.
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“Today at one of our borders we were also able to arrest another group from Madagascar coming from Tanzania and
was also having fake Visas and were sent back by our officers,” he added.
