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Third Quarterly Media Briefing on Kenya’s Foreign Policy: Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS, on Trafficking in Persons
Gerald Kombo
November 17, 2025
Principal Secretary Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS during the Third Quarterly Media Briefing on Kenya’s Foreign Policy at the Old Treasury Building, Nairobi, on 12 November 2025.
“We do have an extensive legal framework that deals with trafficking in persons… Trafficking in persons is something we take very, very seriously in a based infrastructure.”
Briefing in Nairobi
On Wednesday 12 November 2025 at 1300 hours, the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs held its Third Quarterly Media Briefing on Kenya’s Foreign Policy at the Old Treasury Building on Harambee Avenue in Nairobi. The session was led by the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, together with Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs Dr Korir Sing’Oei and Principal Secretary Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS from the State Department for Diaspora Affairs.
When trafficking in persons came into focus, Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS first acknowledged the seriousness of the subject before outlining how it is framed within government systems.
“This is a very loaded question, and I’m giving my best shot in terms of my understanding of what you’re asking…”
Law and multi‑agency coordination
Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS anchored her remarks in the country’s legal provisions.
“We do have an extensive legal framework that deals with trafficking in persons…”
She then connected this framework to a coordinated structure across government.
“…and a multi‑agency team that deals with trafficking in persons, cuts across various ministries.”
She explained where this work is situated institutionally.
“This ministry is where it sits, Ministry of Interior, the various sub‑committee agencies, the Attorney General’s and so on.”
These statements present trafficking in persons as a shared responsibility that involves the ministry where Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS serves, the Ministry of Interior, relevant sub‑committees, and the Office of the Attorney General, working together through a multi‑agency team under an established legal framework.
Kenya as source and transit
Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS also described how Kenya is perceived within trafficking routes.
“Kenya has sometimes been seen as a source country for trafficking and a transit country, and the rest is usually free.”
In that line, she recognised that people can be recruited from Kenya and moved through Kenya as part of wider patterns. Her wording acknowledges both roles clearly, without adding detail beyond what is necessary for the foreign policy context.
She then emphasised how the issue is treated within state structures.
“And so trafficking in persons is something we take very, very seriously in a based infrastructure.”
Here, Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS linked seriousness to the existence of an underlying infrastructure, aligning concern with the legal and institutional elements she had already described.
EAC framework and protection of citizens
Turning to the regional dimension, Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS placed trafficking in persons within East African Community security discussions.
“But also maybe the EAC framework, there are conversations and convenings around the issues of security, including human trafficking, and matters that could also easily be addressed within…”
This positioned human trafficking inside EAC “conversations and convenings” on security, indicating that it is part of the shared regional agenda.
She added that engagement runs both through specific policies and through the EAC as a collective.
“They either work with the … policy or work with the EAC as an EAC while they have to have policies.”
Finally, Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS brought the focus back to Kenyans affected by these dynamics.
“But they do work to protect our citizens, sometimes [they are] targeted as a group for trafficking into Southeast Asia and so on.”
With this, Roseline Kathure Njogu, CBS linked the legal framework, the multi‑agency team, and the EAC framework to a protection role for “our citizens,” including those who are “targeted as a group for trafficking into Southeast Asia and so on,” under the mandate of the State Department for Diaspora Affairs.
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