{"id":103170,"date":"2024-11-24T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/24\/police-arrest-human-trafficker-after-intercepting-bus-from-kampala\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T08:03:07","slug":"police-arrest-human-trafficker-after-intercepting-bus-from-kampala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/police-arrest-human-trafficker-after-intercepting-bus-from-kampala\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest human trafficker after intercepting bus from Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 24<\/strong> <strong>\u2014 Police in Kikuyu have arrested a suspected human trafficker and others after intercepting a bus traveling from Kampala, Uganda, to Nairobi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acting on a tip-off, officers stopped the 60-seater bus at Gitaru along the Naivasha-Nairobi Highway around 8:00 am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>During a routine search, officers identified irregularities among some passengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice officers conducted a search and found that a 19-year-old Somali woman and her 16-year-old sister possessed birth certificates suspected to be fake,\u201d stated a police report.<\/p>\n<p>Further inquiries revealed that a 43-year-old woman, Teresa Nasambu Salim, was traveling with a 16-year-old Ugandan primary school student. <\/p>\n<p>She could not provide a credible explanation for the minor\u2019s destination or her relationship with the child.<\/p>\n<p>The Somali nationals, Teresa, the minor, and the bus conductor were taken to Kikuyu Police Station for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are verifying the documents\u2019 authenticity and investigating potential violations.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver was instructed to continue the journey but return the vehicle to Kikuyu Police Station for further inspection.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 24 \u2014 Police in Kikuyu have arrested a suspected human trafficker and others after intercepting a bus traveling from Kampala, Uganda, to Nairobi. Acting on a tip-off, officers stopped the 60-seater bus at Gitaru along the Naivasha-Nairobi Highway around 8:00 am on Saturday. During a routine search, officers identified irregularities among some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}