Involve local communities in refugee repatriation drive

Time has finally clocked for the Somalia refugees to go back and have a home of their own. The all famous repatriation drive is something overdue; it should have been done way back, with leaders focusing on post-exercise progress reports.

Anyway, it is never late but again at a required and convenient time methinks! Kenya hosted foreign refugees in communal grazing lands, and it is time these communities get back their land parcels. When the fleeing Somalis and Sudanese citizens arrived in the country, they were offered temporary settlements in these areas close to 24 years ago, and now they are almost claiming ownership.
The Kenyan communities, especially the pastoralists in the now Garissa county were kept in the dark and today, the same mistake is being repeated: the host communities have no clue on what is happening and they're getting more confused.