Controversial
Nigerian businessman Anthony Chinedu who has been facing criminal charges has
been deported from Kenya.
Chinedu
is among six Nigerians who were deported on Monday from Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport for being in the country illegally.
They
were arrested from their houses on Sunday night in a police operation following
reports they were involved in “dirty” businesses.
Sources
at JKIA said they were all put on an international airline after being warned
against being violent if and when they are there.
“Five
of them have been deported and they are no longer in the country,” said a
senior security official at the airport.
Nairobi
Area head of CID Nicholas Kamwende confirmed the deportation.
Chinedu
was facing a number of criminal cases and was in April arrested in his house
with 10 grammes of heroin that he is believed to have either been using or wanted
to traffic.
The
arrest followed an operation carried out in the city centre in which two men
including a Nigerian national were nabbed for trafficking heroin.
The
men were identified as Nelson Namunyu Mwangi who was found with 268 grams of
heroin and Nigerian national Adebiyi Oluwatosin Fatai who had 20 grammes of the
drugs.
They
were arrested outside a popular club with the narcotics. Police say the two
have been behind several incidents of drug trafficking in the city and they
were expected in court again on Monday for mention of their case.
Cases
of narcotics consumption are on the rise in the city and police are grappling
with the situation.
Officers
who were involved in the operation said several other mules managed to escape
as they approached the scene. A major operation has been organised to nab the
traffickers who are on the lose in the city.
Chinedu
has been embroiled in a tussle over control of property with his estranged wife
Joyce Akinyi and had asked the court to wind up their business in the city and
the proceeds shared between them.
The
rival couple has court cases relating to their various properties and custody
of their two children.
Chinedu
has also in the past fought deportation charges by authorities and succeeded.
Akinyi
had in 2010 asked for the deportation of Chinedu on grounds that he was a
danger to Kenya.
She
wrote asking that "swift action will be taken to ensure Kenyans are safe
from any activities that Chinedu is alleged to have been involved in".
There
are close to seven cases between Akinyi and Chinedu pending in court.
Former
Immigration minister Gideon Konchella on June 19, 2007 directed that Chinedu be
deported because he "is one of several foreigners in this country involved
in the commission of serious crimes involving trade in narcotics and money
laundering".
However,
Chinedu moved to court on June 13, 2008 to stop his deportation.
Source: Standardmedia
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