Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has announced the death of a Kenyan during the general elections in Tanzania on October 29, 2025. Besides that, Mudavadi said that eight other Kenyans who were arrested during the same time as the unrest escalated across the border.
Furthermore, his statement is in line with the increasing worry over the safety of Kenyans in foreign countries, due to the recent disappearances of citizens in the middle of conflicts and becoming victims of human trafficking networks in the Southeast Asia region.
Regarding the war situation in Russia and Ukraine, Mudavadi informed that the government is involving both parties to guarantee that the Kenyans will be brought home safely. “The report from the secret services revealed that some Kenyans located at the warfront were tricked by fake recruitment agencies that promised them up to 18,000 US dollars — roughly KSh 2.7 million — if they would provide travel documents and accommodation,” said Mudavadi.
Moreover, the Prime Cabinet Secretary highlighted the rise of human trafficking in the Southeast and expressed that the greatest number of Kenyans are deceived through the internet by gangs that deal in forced labor and cybercrime.
“The case in Southeast Asia is very serious. The most common method used by traffickers is digital recruitment scams through which they promise lucrative jobs but end up forcing the victims into servitude,” he warned.
Mudavadi also rejected the recent allegations made by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni that Kenyan human rights defenders Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were frozen in a freezer during their 38 days of detention in Uganda. Acording to him, the Ministry has found no trace of such.
However, the government has doubled its efforts in the rescue and repatriation of victims of human trafficking. As per Mudavadi, more than 500 Kenyans have been rescued and returned to their country from 2022 to date.
The government, through its law enforcement agencies, has identified a large number of fraudulent recruitment agencies, nearly 600, that have been involved in deceiving Kenyans with fictitious overseas job offers and consequently been deregistered. “The crackdown on illegal recruitment and human trafficking will not stop. We want to keep Kenyan safe from any form of exploitation and give them a sense of security wherever they go,” said Mudavadi.
Such measures by the government against the backdrop of public concern over the well-being of Kenyans abroad who either work or are stranded, and also the appeal for stricter regulation of labour export agents and online recruitment platforms.
