KENYAN TOP IMMIGRATION OFFICER RUTH ALLEGEDLY DEMANDS BRIBE FROM BAHAMA CITIZENS ON TRANSIT AT JKIA

Immigration officer Ruth Djiraha on the spot after confiscating passport of two Bahama citizens on transit and allegedly demanding bribe

By Special Correspondent

Two Bahamas citizens were detained by a

senior immigration officer at the Jomo

Kenyatta International Airport

(JKIA) after confiscating their

passport and ordering them to return to

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where

their flight originated from.

The duo, Kafilongo Botulu Tresor and

Mbunda Tshombe Samy were born in Zaire,

now DRC in 1986 and 1982 respectively

before acquiring citizenship in Bahamas

where they moved at an early age.

On Monday, February 21, they were on

their way to Paris, France from Kinsasha

aboard a Kenya Airways flight which

left DRC at 10am and arrived at JKIA at

3pm. With their next connection flight

set to depart at 11pm to Paris where

they were to get means to Bahamas, they

decided to take transit visa to have a

short glimpse of Nairobi which they have

never visited before, before they

returned to catch their evening flight.

“We are shocked with what we have

witnessed tonight. This immigration

officer at JKIA by the name Ruth Djiraha

has confiscated our passports without a

reason and forced us to miss our flight

to Paris, France. No she wants us to

take a flight back to DRC, the origin of

our trip, without our passports,” said

a furious Tresor who gave his physical

address in Bahamas as Walrus Avenue n17,

Nassau/ Bahamas.

He added: “She claimed that our

passports were fake and demanded 5,000

Euros from us, when we could not raise

that amount of money and offered her

2,000 Euros, our flight had already

left. She took the money and knowing

that she had already wronged us, told us

that she would offer us accommodation

and organise our return to Congo the

following morning. If indeed our

passports are fake, there are right

procedures to be followed, in fact

policemen could have been involved and

is that even within her mandate yet our

destination is France and we were just

on transit?”