UPDATE: 43 people among them 38 children, who were arraigned in court on Wednesday, January 22 over terror links, have been detained.
This is after a court ordered for their detention until Friday, January 24 to enable the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) time to probe the incident further.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has reined in on a group of individuals that they accuse of facilitating terror recruitment rings in Nairobi.
Taking to their social media accounts on Tuesday, January 21, the DCI announced that the illegal operation had been ongoing in two colleges located in Eastleigh before they brought an end to it.
In these colleges, the foreigners were alleged to be receiving language-training courses and after gaining fluency, were recruited into various terror operations.
"Today, a multiagency team comprising of officers drawn from the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, the General Service Unit and Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVETA) launched an intelligence guided operation at Atlas and Alison community colleges both based at 1st Avenue in Eastleigh," the DCI announced.
The colleges, which are reported to have been operating without the requisite licenses, are said to have also been enrolling Somali refugees for training in English and Kiswahili, after which they were used to gather information needed to facilitate terror attacks.
The DCI also indicated that the colleges had been operating with unregistered staff and offering unapproved courses contrary to the requirements of the law.
"Atlas college was found registered with TVETA but has been offering courses that it has not been licensed to train such as English and Kiswahili, whereas Alison community college was found not registered with TVETA," the DCI intimated.
The DCI also raised fears that the establishments might have been a front for human trafficking and intimated that investigations were ongoing to establish the same.
The operation netted a total of 43 individuals without the required documents, among them two managers, one secretary, two teachers, and 38 students.
"All who were arrested without the required documentation will be arraigned tomorrow for residing outside designated areas as further investigations to establish the cartels behind the human trafficking syndicate continue," the DCI concluded.
