NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 25- A senior official at the South Sudan Embassy is being investigated, over suspected links to child trafficking in the country.
The official is being probed alongside a brother to South Sudan Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Peter Mayen Majondit. Police identified the brother as Santos Machok Majong.
This is after detectives rescued 14 South Sudanese children from an apartment in Kilimani.
They were being held under unclear circumstances, a senior detective, who is privy to the ongoing investigations told Shahidi News.
The children were being moved from one apartment to the other, to avoid raising eyebrows.
At some point, they are believed to have been held at an apartment near Rusinga School, Nairobi early this month.
Sources said they were being ferried using an embassy vehicle.
It was until DCI detectives from the Child Protection Unit raided Marcus Garvey Apartment in Kilimani, that the children were rescued.
They were seven girls and seven boys and were being held in rooms 205 and 206.
They were all under the age of 15
A woman, whose identity was not immediately established, and believed to be the caregiver, was also arrested.
The children were taken to the Kiambu Children Rescue Centre as police launched investigations.
Police told Shahidi News that on March 6, a South Sudan embassy vehicle had been seen at Crystal Villas in Muthangari.
It was ferrying the 14 children. It was driven off to an unknown destination.
Details availed by detectives indicate the car registration number is 121CD7K.
Detectives were informed that Maria Ntalami, a tenant occupying house number 4 at the Crystal Villas near Rusinga School off Gitanga road had the children in her house and were seen taking photographs near the embassy vehicle.
Investigations revealed that the house had been rented by Machok Majong, the minister’s brother.
On interrogation, the landlord told the detectives that the children, mostly girls, were being brought to occupy the house without any caregiver.
However, when the property management and the caretaker were still deliberating on the matter, the embassy vehicle drove off with the children.
Kenya has been categorized as a transit and destination for victims of human trafficking.
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