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2014-02-04 Africa Horn
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Two police officers arrested over abduction of Ethiopian officials
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 NAIROBI, KENYA: Two Kenyan police officers were Monday arrested in connection with the abduction of two top officials of Ethiopias Ogaden National Liberation Front ( ONLF) from outside a popular restaurant in Upper Hill, Nairobi last week. The officers, an inspector and a constable attached to Nairobi Area CID are expected to face charges of espionage for Ethiopias intelligence services.
| I suppose Ethiopia needs to spy on its neighbors, but really, they think Kenya is a threat? |
Nairobi head of CID Nicholas Kamwende confirmed the arrests and said the officers expected in court Monday morning. They will face various charges following the abduction of the two ONLF officials, said Kamwende.
He added the officers had been identified by witnesses as having participated in the abduction of Mr Sulub Ahmed and Ali Hussein who were members of the ONLF negotiation team that was in Nairobi for a proposed third round of talks.
Ahmed and Hussein were members of ONLF central committee and were abducted on January 26 from outside Arabian Cuisine in Upper Hill area. They were later driven out of the country to Ethiopia by intelligence officials from Addis Ababa and their whereabouts are not known.
ONLF officials who asked not to be named had said security agencies from Ethiopia and Kenya were involved in the kidnapping. They had been invited for a lunch date at the restaurant near TSC headquarters when they were abducted by men who were in three waiting cars. One of the cars, a black Toyota Prado and the driver were seized and detained at the Turbi police station the following day but the two were missing amid speculation they had been taken across to Ethiopia.
The ONLF officials who spoke in Nairobi said the two officials were invited by the Kenyan government for peace negotiations. Their whereabouts in Ethiopia are yet to be known. 
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