Editor's Review

  • The businessman and his co-accused were charged with bringing in women from foreign countries and making them work as strippers without pay.

Nairobi businessman Shaikh Furoan Hussain has been jailed for three years in a sentence delivered by the courts.

On Wednesday the court sentenced Furoan to a three-year term after he was found guilty for exploiting nine belly dancers from Nepal and Pakistan at his club in Parklands.

DCI officers rescued the girls who were initially thought to be underage during a raid at Balle Balle Club in Parklands, Nairobi.

In 2018 Furqan and Abdul Waheed Khan his co-accused were accused of trafficking by recruiting a Pakistan national and eight Nepalese nationals for exploitation through deception.

They were further charged with trafficking persons by harbouring the persons for purpose of exploitation by abuse of their position of vulnerability.

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Further, the duo was allegedly accused of confiscating documents in the promotion of trafficking of persons.

The court also heard that jointly with others, not before it, the duo facilitated and aided the entry of the victims into Kenya for purposes of promoting trafficking.

DCI officer who was part of the operation told the court that they took the women and children into protective custody after raiding the club.