DCI Writes To Airline Over JKIA Staff In Human Trafficking Ring

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has raised alarm regarding airport staff involved in smuggling human beings at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).

In a letter written to the Qatar Airways station manager and seen by Viral Tea, the intelligence agency revealed that several employees from various agencies are involved in the trade which involved smuggling people from one country to the other via the international airport.

The letter dated September 6, was signed by the commanding officer of the anti-terrorism unit at JKIA and addressed to the Qatar Airways manager who confirmed its receipt on Monday, September 11.

"This office has noted with a lot of concern that people are being smuggled in and out of the country through Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with the assistance of airport staff which include National Police Service personnel, Kenya Airport Authority personnel, airlines personnel, and Immigration personnel," the anti-terror unit officer stated.

The officer further noted that those smuggled were taken to various counties, with the DCI threatening to take legal action on any personnel that would be found engaging in the heinous practice.

“This serves as a warning to all agencies named to desist from the practice. Legal action will be taken on anyone caught,” DCI cautioned.

The letter comes after a video surfaced online recently showing a Ugandan national who was using JKIA to fly to Canada blocked from proceeding on to his flight.

The clip showed one of the JKIA immigration officials appealing to the frustrated man to return to Kampala to board his Canada-bound flight there.

The officer at the JKIA explained that a foreigner would not be cleared to fly to Toronto through Nairobi by virtue of lacking a visa obtained in the country where he boarding from.

"Why are you going through Kenya, you are not a resident here, you need to go back to Uganda and then start the journey from there. You can't use Kenya to go to Canada," the officer stated. 

Additionally, the officer expounded that Kenyans had been barred from flying to Toronto owing to the adversities they found themselves in after settling. 

"We are stopping Kenyans from going to Canada because of the difficulties they get when they arrive there. They are either returned or face challenges, left to go to the streets to survive and find ways of coming back," stated the airport staffer, forcing the traveller to find an excuse to let him through.

He (the passenger) had explained that he had his return ticket due in January 2024, but the officer refused to buy it, stating that they were under official instructions not to allow outsiders to travel to Canada and other countries via Kenya. 

"It is official. We have a memo not to allow anybody from any other country to travel through Kenya to Canada. If we are stopping Kenyans from going, what of the foreigners?" posed the officer. 

The Ugandan was to have his cargo offloaded and sent back to his home country to catch his flight there.

An immigration official who spoke to Viral Tea lauded the colleague's decision to bar the Ugandan from travelling further, with the view that Kenya was preventing cases of travellers using the airport to enter Canada through fraudulent means.

Here is the video:

JKIA is a crime scene...listen to this nigga saying Kenyans cant be allowed to visit Canada...????... pic.twitter.com/vaqB9CRqlS — Maliks ???????? 14/09/15/21 (@maliks_88) September 11, 2023