12 Pakistanis deported

Aug 21, 2001

TWELVE Pakistanis were on Saturday arrested by security organs at Entebbe International Airport and deported to Kenya the following day.

By Emmy Allio TWELVE Pakistanis were on Saturday arrested by security organs at Entebbe International Airport and deported to Kenya the following day. Security sources said on Monday that the Pakistanis arrived on a Kenya Airways flight KQ 410. This brings to 20, the number of Pakistanis arrested at Entebbe Airport in the past two months. Security sources said many of those arrested come with fake South African passports with the hope of flying to Europe posing as South African citizens. Sources said the 12, some of them wearing long beards, claimed they were preachers invited by the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council. Said a source, “When we checked with UMSC, they had no knowledge of the Pakistanis. We knew they were part of the usual group taking advantage of our weak immigration laws. We had no choice but to put them on the next Kenya Airways flight back to Nairobi.” Recently, Police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi said Pakistan was leading in human trafficking of other Asians who want to reach America and Europe. “Some have been arrested and charged but the trend continues. Sometime back they used Spanish passports. “They change names in order to smuggle out other Asian nationalities,” Mugenyi said.

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