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Margaret Nduta, a 37-year-old Kenyan woman, had to be executed on Monday evening in Ho Chi Minh. At the beginning of this month, he was sentenced to a court of drug trafficking in a Vietnamese.
After Frantic’s last minute campaign, Kenyan diplomats were able to continue his execution. Live a lot to the relief of the destructive family. So far. The future is not known with his family and human rights to return to Kenya with providers of human rights.
The journey he traveled to a Vietnamese prison, seems to be a little closer to the house – in Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. Here, in July 2023, his bag was checked to cross the international borders. Filled with about 2 kg of cocaine.
Before starting the airport, NDUTA – said that he was employed online for a job in Vietnam – Addis Ababa’s employer met with “John”. Apparently gave him a flight ticket and a bag to deliver him to the person who accepts it at the other end. The bag, Bole in Qatar and then cleaned the security inspections at the Hamad International Airport, but Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Airport, which caused Ndutan’s detention, was better examined.
Drug trade over Ethiopia is growing in recent years. Last year, in a rare reception, the Customs Headlight of Ethiopia said Debele Kabeta said that the Tsakars were twice this year. As NDUTA’s work shows, Bole Airport is one of the porous border points in this trade. A report by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime says “a large trade center for cocaine and drugs.”
Bole is Africa’s busiest airport. It is built to manage 22 million international travelers and 2 million domestic areas. But in recent years, security stripes increased with travel numbers that move upwards.
“Bole needs higher salary, equipment and resources to prevent corruption, which allows higher salary shipments to easily pass,” John Witherspoon, Catholic priest. Witherspoon manages a program that supports Africans arrested against drug crimes in Hong Kong.
In early 2020, Whatspoon warned the Bole became a new hot spot for illegal drug trafficking and control of East Africa.
He often visited the capital of Ethiopia, collect funds to collect funds to get funds, activists and even body scanners at the airport.
Bole’s Lakh security was previously in 2019 in NDuta in 2019 in 2019. The 28-year-old Ethiopian civilian engineer, who left the country through Bole, was arrested in China in China.
After this work, the Chinese Embassy, ​​the embassy of ADDIS Ababa, handed over a booklet to warn a booklet with each visa to China. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmad promised to improve security at the Bole Airport and signed a contract for 400 Sniffer dogs from the Netherlands to help determine the tale mule.
Unaware of the dogs.
“Bole has no sniffer dogs to help us work,” Abbe Tadesse, ADDIS Ababa Police Main Inspector of the Drug Department. Continent. “We are regularly holding regular medicines, we know that we know that many of those who have successfully continued to make them a lack for them.”
The airport did not answer the questions.
Although inspections remain inadequate, the government took a more controversial measure – Nigerian travelers.
Nigerian drug traffickers reported to be taken to the ADDIS – after the strengthened security in Kenya and Tanzania – Ethiopia, along with the free movement protocol of the African Union, stopped providing visas in 2022. The visa on the arrival option is accessible to all other African citizens.
Nigerian travelers often conduct extensive search and inspections in spite of the evidence that traders are prone to hiring their mules in the region.
Bole remains a pore for drug change, can be extremely nerveewacking airport for people who do not travel to the international level.
Four years ago, the Senait Rahlar moved from the Fight-Torn Tigray area in northern Ethiopia, Addis Ababa’ya, reliable passports, tickets and visas for Dubai went to Bolte. He was trying to leave the country for work. It would be four attempts and a family inheritance to pass through the airport.
Senait said that a family member, including a gold chain, including a family member, and handed him over to him. According to him, the majority of other girls were not refused and left without leaving.
The 24-year-old Martha Senbete had similar experience. In Dubai, a vehicle and last year for four years to pay for 500% of passport fees for passport fees, ADDIS employed enough wages to continue their low salary work in ABABA. Then, in Bole, he turned away immediately because he could not pay the airport power for the departure.
“For four years, I have been working as a daily employee, home worker and servant, including a passport and agent in my airport, I found an agent to have ambushed with another payment.”
The alleged payment required at the airport was equivalent to the work year until one year.
Senbete never resigned to avoid making it from etiopia.
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