Refugees: Their presence in this country possesses great danger to peaceful people

The President met the UN delegation in charge of security on May 20th 2016 to discuss the country’s stand over closure of Dadaab camps consequently repatriation of the refugees and the deputy president travelled to Istanbul – Turkey to defend the country’s decision

The country’s decision to close the camps has caused alarm, panic and great worry. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the Western diplomatic community based in Kenya and the Somali Government has all expressed profound aloofness.  

Many people have committed themselves to memory this place as the home of evacuees and they don’t understand which other home the government wants them to go to. Don’t they have a country? According to the previous studies done in the case of Burundians based in Northern Tanzania, disturbing an obstinate refugee comes along with greatest disapprovals.

Fellow Kenyans, our country is enduring this paradigm.

Before the international community oppose and persuade Kenya not to close the camps it should also have a glimpse of the background and the UN Charter for refugees (1951), and the attendant Protocol of 1967.

The central intent of the charter is to watch over immigrants. In addition, it also expounds of the obligations they have to meet while in the foreign country. To begin with, they are expected to register as refuges. Second, they should dully adhere to their host country’s laws. Third, they will stay in confined areas, exceptional of special cases. Next, they will not become a security threat to the host country. Lastly, they will return to their country once the dangers they ran from no longer there.

This begs the question, have they met the above obligations to continue being kept in this country? 

Currently the Kenya Government has done its best to curb the dangers of insecurity that befell the country recurrently because of these refugees. United Sates is on the fore front in persuading Kenya to rethink about their decision to dissolve Dadaab camp.  On the hand, they are the first people to issue travel adversaries to their citizens against traveling to Kenya because of the insecurity posed by these refugees. Not only that but also Washington has advised her aviation body on what she terms as unsafe air space because of these refugees. Kenyans, is this not a perfect double speak?

Concurrently, intelligence report has it that, the Westgate attack was planned and executed in the same camp (Dadaab). Their presence in this country possesses great danger to peaceful people of this nation who have their own array share of challenges to come to grips with.

Time and again, Kenyan Government has lamented over false promises made by the international community over funding this camp to facilitate operations. They never live true to their words and are quick in asking the country not shut down this camps. Let them (international community) come and fly them (refugees) to their respective countries if they are true humanitarians.

Four decades down the line, Burundi people have sojourn in Northern Tanzania and when asked to leave and go back they ask go back to where? They know not where to go to, where to settle and how to start resettling in “another country”. Moving forward, Kenya may go the Tanzania way because these fellas are infiltrating the society. Mr. President let them go back where they came from and develop their country; we need not their tax evasive business here in Kenya.