Police in Embu on the 27th of March 2014 arrested eleven illegal immigrants from Ethiopia being transported from Isiolo to Nairobi.
Embu West officer commanding police division Elphas Korir said that the eleven were arrested at 5 am by police at a road block at the exit of Embu town.
He said police stopped a speeding Toyota Probox which was overloaded with eleven people and on interrogation, they could not produce any documents to justify their presence in the country.
The OCPD said that the eleven seemed to have walked long distances before they reached Isiolo and boarded the vehicle.
He said the vehicle could have been hired in Isiolo to transport the aliens to Nairobi through the Embu route.
Korir said they could not communicate with the immigrants as none spoke English.
Korir said the eleven will be arraigned in court and charged with being in the country illegally.
The driver he said will be charged with overloading and transporting immigrants knowing they did not have any documents.
He said police have intensified patrols on all the routes to Nairobi through Embu, as most of the illegal immigrants used the route, especially at night and in the morning hours.
The OCPD said he has liased with his counterpart in Timau and Nanyuki to intensify patrol along the Isiolo, Nanyuki, and Nyeri highway.
By Irungu Mwangi
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