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The magistrate directed the 11 be repatriated after the jail term. [Muriithi Mugo, Standard]
Eleven Ethiopians were on Friday sentenced to six-month imprisonment each for being in Kenya illegally.
The foreigners, who had been remanded at Embu GK Prison for lack of an interpreter, cried in court after Senior Resident Magistrate Jean Ndengeri delivered the judgment.
The magistrate directed the 11 be repatriated after the jail term.
Ndengeri found the 11 guilty of being in the country without valid permits and passports.
The 11 pleaded guilty through two interpreters – one from Amharic to Borana and the second from Borana to English and Kiswahili.