{"id":38147,"date":"2026-06-26T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38147"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:55:32","slug":"kenya-deports-somalias-second-deputy-pm-over-alleged-passport-fraud","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-deports-somalias-second-deputy-pm-over-alleged-passport-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya deports Somalia&#8217;s second Deputy PM over alleged passport fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya this week deported Somalia&#8217;s second Deputy Prime Minister (PM) back to his country for suspected fraudulent acquisition of \u200ca Kenyan passport, a police report showed this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jibril Abdirashid Haji arrived at Nairobi&#8217;s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Wednesday afternoon with a valid visa in his Somali \u2060diplomatic passport, but during an immigration inspection he was suspected of having fraudulently acquired a Kenyan passport, the police report said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When interrogated he admitted, and when asked to produce the passport he declined to surrender it and claimed that he can only produce it in a court \u200cof \u2060law,&#8221; the report added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters<\/em> could not reach Haji or Somalia&#8217;s Information Minister for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second Deputy PM was held in a VIP lounge at the \u2060Nairobi airport and issued with a return ticket to Mogadishu. His plane left early on Thursday morning, \u2060the police report said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kenya hosts a large Somali community and contributes troops to peacekeeping missions \u2060in the Horn of Africa country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34088,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-38147","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya deported Somalia's second Deputy Prime Minister back to his country for suspected fraudulent acquisition of \u200ca Kenyan passport","published_date":"2026-06-26 16:00:59","news_description":"Kenya deported Somalia's second Deputy Prime Minister back to his country for suspected fraudulent acquisition of \u200ca Kenyan passport","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38148,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38147\/revisions\/38148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}