Ugandan Police have said they are in talks with Kenyan authorities for the release of nine arrested Ugandans who were being trafficked through Jomo-Kenyatta International Airport.
The Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID spokesperson Charles Twine said that nine Ugandans were arrested at the airport for holding passports with forged Kenyan stamps over the weekend.
Now Police investigations show that the suspects who were arrested as suspects were trafficked and given documents with forged Kenyan stamps by one Charles Kamuli who has a warehouse in Kireka where he recruits and holds his victims for trafficking.
Police say that after recruiting mostly girls, Kamuli and his accomplices transport the victims to Kenya where paperwork is prepared before proceeding to their intended destinations in Dubai and Oman.
He says Police have teamed up with Immigration to hold talks with the Kenyan High Commission and other relevant authorities to make sure that the victims are returned to Uganda and be treated as victims of trafficking.
Meanwhile Agnes Igoye, the deputy coordinator for the prevention of trafficking in persons at the Ministry of Internal Affair, said Uganda is also being used as a transit route of other traffickers to transport victims of human trafficking to different destinations.
She says they are looking for 17 more suspected members of this chain trafficking through Uganda.
