Somalia Ambassador to Kenya : Police are profiling Somali national as criminals.
By ABDILATIF MAALIM.

The Somali embassy in Nairobi says it has secured the release of 32 Somali nationals who were among the 102 arrested following a police swoop in Eastleigh last week.
Somali Ambassador to Kenya Mohamed Ali Nur said his office will push for the release of those who are still behind bars.
Ali Nur said the arrest of the Somali nationals was done in bad faith to criminalize innocent people who were living peacefully in the estate.
He confirmed the release of the 32 individuals which he said was secured after a along struggle by the embassy.
He said the embassy has consulted officials at the Ministry of Foreign affairs to register its concerns in the manner the raids were conducted.
The Ambassador said they demand an explanation on why the police targeted only Somalis in the arrest saying the action amounted to profiling of Somali nationals.
“ Kenya as a sovereign nation has a right to arrest people to keep law and order as an embassy our concern is the profiling of Somalis, which is not right,” said Ali Nur.
The Ambassador also called on Somali national living in Nairobi to acquire documents that would enable them to stay in Kenya legally.
The operation was conducted in the wake of the twin blast that killed at least 73 people in the Ugandan capital Kampala .
Radical Islamist group Al-Shabab of Somalia claimed responsibility for the bombing .It also promised to launch similar attacks in a number of East African countries.
But police refused to link the operation to the Kampala blast saying they have only intensified their crackdown on all aliens and were not targeting Somalis.

Nairobi province police Chief Anthony Kibuchi said the crackdown was carried in all the estates and they will not stop it soon.

“This crackdown will be carried out in all the estates and it will continue. It is not something we are going to stop any time soon,” said Kibuchi.

Last week, the army said it had intensified security along the country’s porous border with Somalia . Truckloads of troops were deployed along the border.

Department of Defense Spokeperson, Bogita Ongeri said the military was also working with police to ensure that any security loophole can be fixed to prevent attacks similar to the Kampala twin blast.