KENYAN GOVERNMENT TO DEPORT REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS ENGAGED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.
World refugee day/Kakuma camp coverage

20th June 2013
By Patrick Donald Oucha & Tony Irungu
In kenya

The camp manager Kakuma refugee camp Mr. Abdi Abdullahi, has publicly announced that any refugee or asylum seeker engaged in criminal activity shall be deported to their own countries of origin. Officiating during an occasion to mark the world refugee’s day venued at Don Bosco, the camp manager repeatedly warned that Kakuma camp was not designed to become a slaughter camp for human beings. He appealed to those refugees and asylum seekers whose lives revolve around crime to walk to his office where a standby vehicle is in place to drive whoever is ready back to his /her home country.

The warning that refugees will be deported if they engage in criminal activities was also publicly announced by the deputy officer commanding police division (OCPD –Turkana West) during an impromptu live radio briefing to the communities.

All these reactions originate from the theatre of hostility being displayed by unruly asylum seekers and refugees across Kakuma refugee camp recently where 5 refugees were killed and 213 arrested as a result of a running battles between two Sudanese tribes (nuer & morule 16th June 2013).

The day was also officiated by the outgoing head of the UNHCR sub office Kakuma refugee camp Mr. Guy Avognon who said bye to Kakuma.
Also present was the area manager for Lutheran World Federation  Mr. Okello and an assortment of high profile NGO officials.

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