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Tanzania jails Ethiopian migrants convicted of illegal entry


The Ethiopian migrants disembarked the police truck at Iringa Residence Magistrate Court before the sentence yesterday. (Photo by Friday Simbaya)

 By Friday Simbaya, Iringa
Iringa Residence Magistrate Court has sentenced 83 Ethiopian nationals, including the driver and his assistant who were transporting them up to three and five years in prison over entering into the country illegally and human trafficking respectively.

Delivering the sentence yesterday Iringa Residence Magistrate Andrew Scout said has sentenced the driver Hansi Mwakyoma (28) and his assistant Alex Adam (32), all residents of Mbeya Region to five years in prison or pay a fine of 1.5 million shillings each, after they were arrested and confessed to transport 83 undocumented immigrants from Ethiopia which has also been sentenced to three (3) years or a fine of one million shillings each.

Scout said he was satisfied with the explanation from an attorney with illustrations including the vehicle used by the suspects from Kongowe Dar es Salaam to Malawai via Mbeya Kyela.

He said that by using a Scania vehicle with registration number T478 DFE belonging to Mwambenja Frola of Mbeya Region, 16 January this year; the driver and assistant driver (Tingo) were arrested in the village of Ruaha Mbuyuni in Kilolo district of Iringa Region, a long Mbeya- Iringa highway were transporting them towards Kyela where is the border of Tanzania and Malawi.

After reading the sentence, some of them the Ethiopian citizens were tears up and cause people who were close to the court room number three packed full with people draw attention of people who were nearby court buildings as while.

Interpreter Emanuel Yeb Mtaltisili who is a presenter on radio station FM Ebony in Iringa said those immigrants who do not speak English or Swahili language, he hoped for these migrants to be a sentence of deportation after admitting the offense."

Earlier, read the description of the fault of the suspects after all plead guilty before the court, attorney from the Department of Immigration Godfrey Ngwijo said it was January 16 this year in the area of ​​Ruaha Mbuyuni the suspects were arrested while in the sealed truck boarded from Kongowe Dar es Salaam to Malawi against the immigration law of 2002 which was amended in 2015.

Ngwijo said at an unspecified date, 83 suspected Ethiopia nationals entered the country using illegal way towards Dar es Salaam were exactly that their journey towards Kyela Mbeya to enter Malawi.

He said they were arrested nearby Mbuyuni Ruaha area by traffic police officer at Mtandika road block who want to open the back door of the truck and found people behind the truck helpless and dehydrated.

He claimed once after found people he ordered them to the police station in Ruaha Mbuyuni where the driver and his assistant were admitted the offense claiming and a certain amount of money was agreed to him after successfully reaching the destination.
 


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