Police in Makueni are holding six beggars who were nabbed in Wote town on Friday while pretending to be disabled.
The police have since found out that the group was brought in from the neighbouring Tanzania and are being held to help the law enforcers with investigations.
Confirming the arrests, Makueni Police Commander Joseph Ole Nepaiyan said that the group is part of purported disabled persons who are taken to Wote town to beg every morning.
"On further interrogation, we were able to determine that the six were from a neighboring country,” he said, adding that all of the beggars in police custody were on wheelchairs.
However, pointed out that some were found to be pretending, and got up to ran when the police attempted to arrest them, with one managing to flee on a motorbike.
"When we went to arrest them, one of them took off on a motorcycle,” added the police boss who said that five of them are women and were carrying babies.
This comes comes only days after Migori Ward Representative Esther Onana called upon the Tanzanian government to consider addressing the issue of too much if its beggars in Kenya.
She said that Tanzanian beggars are flocking the county, and have since grown into a problem for the county, yet there are disabled Kenyans who do not engage in the same.