Detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are investigating a case in which a senior official at the South Sudan Embassy is linked to child trafficking in the country.
This is after detectives rescued fourteen South Sudanese children from an apartment in Kilimani.
The official is being probed alongside Santos Machok Majong, a brother to South Sudan Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Peter Mayen Majondit.
According to police report, the children were being held under unclear circumstances and were being moved from one apartment to another to avoid raising eyebrows.
At some point, they are believed to have been held at an apartment near Rusinga School, Nairobi early this month.
Detectives from the Child Protection Unit raided Marcus Garvey Apartment in Kilimani where the children were rescued.
They were seven girls and seven boys who were being held in rooms 205 and 206.
They were all under the age of 15.
A woman, whose identity was not immediately established, and believed to be the caregiver, was also arrested.
The children were taken to the Kiambu Children Rescue Centre as police launched investigations.
Kenya has the highest level of child trafficking in the African region receiving the Tier 2 designation for human trafficking.
The cities of Nairobi, Kisumu and Mombasa are where trafficking occurs the most where traffickers traffic children for domestic servitude and sexual exploitation as well as forced labour, forced begging and forced marriage.
The African child trafficking market has become a refined system and is difficult for authorities to keep up with the scale of the problem.
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