KAMPALA, Apr 28 (THE AFRICAN PORTAL) – The Ministry of Internal Affairs has arrested at least 231 illegal immigrants in two separate intelligence-led crackdowns targeting irregular migration.
According to the ministry’s spokesperson, Simon Peter Mundeyi, 169 foreign nationals were arrested last night in an apartment in Bukoto, a Kampala suburb, without valid immigration status. Of these, 36 are women.
He explained that the majority are from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Ghana, Myanmar, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Malaysia.
“Inside the building we recovered a significant cache of computers of all types and IT equipment used to facilitate illegal gaming, betting and organised scamming,” Mundeyi said.
He added, “The group was operating from a highly restricted, self-contained apartment complex equipped with its own restaurant and internal facilities designed to restrict movement, with very strict access and exit.”
According to him, the suspects lacked all forms of identification, including travel passport.
“We did not find them with passports and on interrogation they did inform us that the passports are with their bosses, which bosses have not yet made way here,” Mundeyi explained.
