DISGRACE!! County Forcefully Deports Street Children

Uasin Gishu County has received backlash from residents in Busia County after it lured street children in Eldoret town, deported them and dumped them at Kochoria area in Busia at 8 p.m on Monday, October 12.
The move has elicited mixed reactions among residents and the deported street families which are made of children and adults from different communities in Kenya.
Busia county has particularly been irked by the move which those who spoke to the media say is lack of respect for the street children and the county itself.
Uasin Gishu county says that the deported street families who hail from Nyamira, Turkana, Pokot and Baringo regions are behind a spate of crimes in Eldoret town among them killing of innocent people.
The county also alleges that most of those who were deported are children who have run away from their homes and do not want to go to school.
However, the street children have refuted the claims saying that they have never been involved in the crimes they are being accused of.
Instead, all they do is collect bottles and plastics to earn a living.
They said that the county officials lured them with lies that they are going to provide them with employment, dumped them in lorries and transported them to the Kenya-Uganda border where they were told to alight to relieve themselves only for the lorries to speed away.



The street families have, however, been deported back to Eldoret by police based in Busia to join with their families whom they had been separated from.