EDITOR’S NOTE: How long Ethiopians will continue to suffer such wretchedness and dishonor, even at the hands of the people whom they helped to liberate from colonialists??
NAIROBI, KENYA — Eighty-nine Ethiopians charged with being in Kenya illegally on Thursday caused a stir when they started praying after pleading guilty to the charge.
Soon after pleading guilty, the foreigners bowed down and started saying prayers. They appeared before Kibera senior principal magistrate Grace Nzioka.
“That is enough respect, please stop praying now,” the magistrate told them.
Mrs Nzioka sent them back to the police after the prosecutor, chief inspector Francis Ndiema, told the court that he had no facts of the case.
“I have no facts of the case. I pray that the case be mentioned tomorrow to enable me to read the facts,” the prosecutor said.
The magistrate wondered how the police could take the accused before her without the facts.
“Do you want me to take the accused back to the police station? The accused are supposed to be told what offence they allegedly committed and how they entered into the country.
They should go back to the police station for the facts to be prepared and made available in court tomorrow (Friday),” said the magistrate.
8 thoughts on “Ethiopians say prayers in Nairobi court”
It is very sad that they fall from the frying pan into the fire.
Please don’t deport them!They have already suffered and when Ethiopian police get a hold of them they will be killed, but I am sure that they will be sent back to Ethiopia because the Kenyans don’t know about the corruptness and evilness of the Woyanne government.
What a pity! It is heart- breaking to read.
After 3000 years of history, these days, I am not proud of calling myself Ethiopian, when I read news of this sort and many others like those Ethiopians who are shot in the back when crossing the borders between Egypt and Israel, or the thousands who die yearly in the red sea in search of peace and food, or those whose bodies are covered by the sandunes of the Arabian desert in their hundreds, and last but not least the extra judicial killings and institutionalised rape in the Ogaden.
I don’t feel specially sad for these people. They should have known better and stayed at home. Believe it or not, théy would live a better life than that at home.
These days, I am ashamed to say I am from Ethiopia. We are dispised and disrespected even among other African nations. Why are not the Kenyans, Ugandians,South Africans and son on come to Ethiopia ???? we are the ones who are goign to their country as refuges and begars. Isn’t Ethiopia more blessed with natural resources than most of those coutries ? what is wrong ? When is Ethiopia going to have government who cares about its people ?
#4, you are a clueless Woyane.
#4 comments: If you think they would have a better life living in Ethiopia why don’t you live in Ethiopia yourself? Shame on you!!!!
It breaks my heart to see my brothers get treated like that. what happened to humanity, aren’t we all from the same continent? why not show compasion to fellow africans? i am sure there will time where people will beg to be saved by ethiopians, we all always been hosipitable and generous to others but see this kind of things done to our people is not just right. Kenyans, do not forget this day ans shame on you to treat fellow africans like this.