By PETER OCHIENG
Eldoret, Kenya: Police in Eldoret have nabbed 54 Somali nationals who had boarded a bus headed for Turkana.
The foreigners were in a bus which had been stopped for a routine check at a roadblock in Burnt Forest on Monday evening.
They are alleged to have successfully sneaked into the country through the Kenya-Somalia border.
Eldoret East OCPD Nelson Taliti told The Standard police became suspicious of the passengers in the bus and ordered them to show their identification.
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"All of them did not have any documents authorising them to be in the countr,’’ he said.
The OCPD added that on Sunday, they arrested two Ethiopians and a Sudanese national who had no identification documents.
The suspects were locked up at Central Police Station in Eldoret for interrogation before they are arraigned in court.
