Six young Kenyans who have been stranded at the Central station took contact with the Kenyan Embassy today, Wednesday 23rd December but received no help from the Mission. KSB has talked to them and according to information they gave, two of their colleagues went to the Embassy to explain their problem but unfortunately, they were told by an Embassy official that they should return on Monday next week because the Embassy is closed during Christmas. The official added that nothing could be done immediately.
“They told us that there is nothing they could do because the Embassy will remain closed”, one of them told KSB. This is despite the fact that the Embassy knew and understood that they were sleeping at the Central station and that they had nowhere to go. The Embassy did not give any ideas on where they were to sleep until Monday when the Mission can look into their problems.
As a result, a Kenyan has now picked them up and decided to accommodate them temporarily in his one roomed flat, arguing that it was inhuman to leave these Kenyans to freeze at the Central Station. News that the Embassy has abandoned these Kenyans will, most likely, shock Kenyans who believe that the Kenyan Ambassador to Scandinavia, Mrs Purity Muhindi, is a kind hearted family woman who minded so much about the affairs of members of the Kenyan community in Stockholm.
According to the six Kenyans, they were conned by a Kenyan woman who lives in Finland and who promised them that they would be slotted into various Finnish Universities under an arrangement which was organized by an agent in Kenya. When the story was first broken by KSB, we had not reached the Kenyans and news indicated that they were to be admitted at Swedish Universities.
Speaking to KSB, one of the Kenyans said: “We travelled to Finland through Stockholm and we were supposed to be met by a Kenyan woman in Finland but she never turned up”. The Kenyan said that when they tried to enquire about the woman, they were told that she had gone on holiday.
Once they discovered that they could not trace the woman, they decided to return to Stockholm to try and make arrangements on how they could return to Kenya because they had return tickets. It is during the process that they were trying to sort their trip back to Kenya that they got stranded at the Central Station with nowhere to go. A Kenyan discovered them at the Station and alerted KSB.
The good and caring Kenyan, who has accepted to accommodate them, has said that the issue should now be a communal affair because the stranded Kenyans do not know anybody in Sweden. He told KSB that he is taking in the boys as a matter of concern and as a human being who cannot see others suffer under the circumstances without doing anything. He has appealed to Kenyans to help in any way possible as their plight is looked into.
When questioned further, the Kenyans said that their parents back home know about their problem and that some parents have tried to communicate with Kenya Embassy but that the Mission has been very unresponsive. All personnel at the Embassy have gone on Christmas holiday including the Boss, Ambassador Purity.
According to information gathered, three of the Kenyans are 21 years old, one is 20 yrs, one is 23 years while another one is 25 years old. The Kenyan who took them in his flat told KSB that the six need to shower and feel fresh because they have not done so for two days. He says that Kenyans in Stockholm need to meet to look into how the stranded countrymen can be assisted.
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First of all…this story makes me wonder how the boys have managed to go to Finland through Stockholm and expecting to be taken to any universities without doing some tests and such (coz Finland is very strict nowadays when it comes to bringing new foreigners to study…you have to even do the test in the Finnish Embassy in Kenya before you can be admitted to schl or yes, you can come to Finland and do the test here, but did they have the date for the tests already?). And why on earth was KSB contacted first when these six young Kenyans were found stranded in T-Centralen?!?!?!! (unless it was involved in “human trafficing” of the six desperate Kenyans!) Otherwise, in my opinion, whomever contacted KSB, should have contacted the Swedish institutions (that can actually help!!) like the social office, police or the Swedish bureu of Investigations or immigration office where you can get all the required information how to proceed with the staying.
We are in Sweden and of course the offices here are closed during public holidays and what the officer in the Embassy said was correct that they are not able to give immediate help.
I mean, wake up all you who have lived here for a while and know how the system goes here…you know how it works! Don’t blame the Embassy for this incident. How can KSB help these young Kenyans to stay without a help from the mentioned institutions?!? If they want to stay here legally that is! To add insult to injury, KSB is the one that needs help here because most of the stories that we read here are biased!
KSB: Mama Wairimu aka Rasta Chuma, you better not try this again because it has failed before – putting on fake multiple attires to attack KSB. You need to lie low like an envelope there in Skarpnäck where you are hiding. When a storo went around that you get tax free whisky from the Ambassador, I thought it was propaganda. Now I know. Your two kids, whom you have abandoned, need you more than the time you are wasting at KSB. After getting away with a rape case of a Kenyan asylum seeker, you better get saved and ask for forgiveness before the new year. Wacha uchokozi.
A man who abandons his children has no sympathy with others. Am sure the stranded Kenyans must be the age of his kids,so he should react as a responsible father rather than exposing his stupidity in defending the nasty embassy officials.
KSB: Nabangi, U couldn’t have put it better. I was suprised that he is supporting the Ambassador because he styles himself as an oppositionist.
Why would Mama Wairimu suggest that KSB is involved in human trafficking? Osewe, you could report this bastard for such thinking which only shows a demented brain. Kenyans are well aware of the Embassy limits so there is nothing new this person is telling us. What people expected was compassion from the Embassy staff considering the pathetic condition these young Kenyans were exposed to at T-Centralen. Those who have assisted them regardless of their story are heroes/heroines in Kenya-Stockholm.Mama Wairimu can continue sipping wine without care because it’s acquired freely from the Kenya Embassy in Stockholm from the Nyeri home gal called Purity.
KSB.. The problem with ulambaji is that sometimes you are forced to support the un/supportable because of fear of losing favors. Imagine a man posing as a woman to please his Boss! Eti Mama Wairimu when I know he is Baba Nani but do I say!
Well, well, well,Rastachuma is back. First i will start with KSB’S comment following in here below;
(KSB: Mama Wairimu aka Rasta Chuma, you better not try this again because it has failed before – putting on fake multiple attires to attack KSB. You need to lie low like an envelope there in Skarpnäck where you are hiding. When a storo went around that you get tax free whisky from the Ambassador, I thought it was propaganda. Now I know. Your two kids, whom you have abandoned, need you more than the time you are wasting at KSB. After getting away with a rape case of a Kenyan asylum seeker, you better get saved and ask for forgiveness before the new year. Wacha uchokozi.) first of all i dont need to defend myself from your cheap alcohol propaganda coz i dont even know that there is such kind of treats in existence at our Embassy, and if at all there has been:::, that would only help me understand your anger towards our honourable Ambassador assuming that he/she cut your dutyfree supplies at some point.
Next is to remind you that i have not abandoned my kids, i spend time with them every other day including right now.
Lastly in REF: to your Rape allegation; MBONA USITOMBOE??
Tomboa!! and if at all you do not know what your gossiping about, i suggest you find yourself a therapist rather than waste your precious time poisoning other peoples mind with your irresponsible jounalism. “WACHA KUCHOKOZA UBALOZI WA KENYA”
Human trafficking has started. It has been established that the Guys parted with about 0.5M KShs each through a Tanzanian Woman to be accommodated by a Tanzanian Guy in Helsinki.Unfortunately the Guy was on holiday in Tanzania when these young men got stranded in Helsinki before going back to Sweden. Likely More details will reveal later.