Kenya Airways (KQ) on Friday called for the release of two of its employees detained by a military intelligence unit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The KQ employees, who work at the company’s airport office in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, were arrested on April 19 by the Military Detection of Anti-Homeland Activities (DEMIAP) allegedly because of “missing custom documentation on valuable cargo”, the airline said.
According to the KQ statement, a military court in the DRC had promised their release on Thursday, but they were still being detained.
“This is a serious infringement of the rights of the two Kenyans and a worrying breach of the diplomatic principles upon which… Kenya-DRC relations are founded,” Nelson Koech, chairperson of a parliamentary committee covering defence, intelligence and foreign relations, said Friday.
The airline’s CEO Allan Kilavuka said the…
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