{"id":9463,"date":"2015-08-23T00:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T04:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2015-08-23T00:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T04:24:50","slug":"kenya-court-sentenced-78-ethiopians-to-3-months-in-jail-for-entering-the-country-illegally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9463","title":{"rendered":"Kenya court sentenced 78 Ethiopians to 3 months in jail for entering the country illegally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ethiopian-illegal-immigrants-in-Kenya-sentenced-to-3-months-in-jail-20-August-2015.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Ethiopian-illegal-immigrants-in-Kenya-sentenced-to-3-months-in-jail-20-August-2015.gif\" alt=\"Ethiopian illegal immigrants in Kenya sentenced to 3 months in jail 20 August 2015\" width=\"524\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9464\" \/><\/a>Seventy eight Ethiopians who were arrested in a police lorry in Meru were sentenced to three months or a fine of Sh50,000 each before repatriation for being found in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>However, two other suspects were not able to take their plea because they were sick.<\/p>\n<p>The 78 immigrants pleaded guilty with the aid of an interpreter and asked for forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>They said they have been on the road for 15 days and were heading to South Africa in search of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopians appeared before Maua magistrate Oscar Wanyaga.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant William Kipchirchir of the Anti Stock Theft Unit in Sololo, Marsabit, was also arraigned before a Maua Law Court.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78iZOamnRi8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/video\/-\/1951480\/2839820\/-\/igukxh\/-\/index.html\">Daily Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy eight Ethiopians who were arrested in a police lorry in Meru were sentenced to three months or a fine of Sh50,000 each before repatriation for being found in the country illegally. However, two other suspects were not able to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9463\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9466,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}