Three traders were on Friday charged in a Kiambu court with trafficking of 25 women from Burundi.
Lydiah Wairimu Maina, Susan Nyambura Ng'ang'a and Mercy Kaare Nyaga pleaded not guilty before senior principal magistrate Stella Atambo.
The magistrate granted an application by investigating officer Rachael Kombe attached to Transnational Organised Crime Unit to hold the Burundian women at Gigiri police station.
The court heard that detectives acting from a tip-off on Thursday raided a home in Gwa Kairu in Kiambu where they rescued the victims.
Kombe told the court that during the raid, five passports were recovered.
In the same court, the magistrate ordered a criminal case against a lawyer and a businessman to be mentioned on April 2.
The case was scheduled for hearing but it could not proceed since the trial magistrate, principal magistrate Justus Kituku, was not sitting.
However, Atambo directed the case to be placed before the trial magistrate on Tuesday for further direction.
A number of witnesses, including Registrar of Land Sarah Chelimo already testified by identifying some copies of documents in a case in which lawyer Patrick Ngunjiri Maina and Viktah Ngunjiri Maina are accused of making false land transfer document and obtaining registration of land by false pretences.
The offence is said to have been committed between March 5, 2011, and March 14, 2012.
Maina is accused of uttering a document with intent to deceive.
