MALABA Police are holding an Eritrean Citizen for unlawfully sneaking into Kenya through the Malaba border. 

The Suspect Efrem Tewelde, 39, was nabbed as he tried to cross the border at the clearing yard by an Administration police officer attached to the immigration office with combined effort from Senior Immigration Officer Mr.  Wilfred Chepkole.

The suspect is claimed to have been determined to reach Mombasa to transport goods to Juba of  Southern Sudan was taken to Malaba Police Station where he is being held and  will be arraigned in court Wednesday for illegally being in Kenya contrary to Section 53(1) J of  the Kenyan Citizenship and Immigration Act 2011.

According to immigration rules, the man was supposed to be cleared in Kampala at the Kenyan Embassy screening office.

‘’The man was supposed  to pass through  Kenyan embassy screening  before entering Kenya and  Uganda officers  at the migration office must have allowed  the man to  enter Kenya maybe at a fee since he  was found in possession of a passport with no stamp from Uganda,” explained  the officer on condition of anonymity.