A city lawyer wants Interior CS Fred Matiang'i and his Sports counterpart Rashid Echesa to pay $90,000 (Sh9 million) in damages to the eight Pakistani women deported on Saturday. The detention period ended on Monday and Ondieki faulted the state for interfering with a court process. They had been granted special passes by the Immigration department allowing them in the country as cultural dancers between December 1 and 31 last year. They paid Sh45,000 each to the Immigration Department to acquire the permits but were arrested one hour before the expiry of the permits. And senior principal magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot took an offence in Machirah’s declaration that the state deported the foreigners to rescue them from psychological torture but continued detaining its citizen.

Source: The Star January 08, 2019 12:06 UTC