REFUGEES, TOO, HAVE RIGHTS

By Ahmedsiyat Dees
We will accommodate our brothers and sisters across the boarders as long as they are refugees, as long as Kenya is a signatory to international conventions on refugees, be they Somalis, Ethiopians, Sudanese or Congolese. Once you accepted to have them here, you must also accept their right or freedom of movement. Dadaab is less than 100 Kilometers From Garissa. it would be strange NOT to find refugees in Garissa town or people from the host community in the camp. My father's camels used to graze in this place called "ramaguda" the current hagardheer area. Its natural for people to interact and look for better opportunities. The refugees in Nairobi's Eastleigh did not "germinate" and "grow" in eastleigh" like a tree, they came by buses and planes, through police and immigration checks... Yes we are together against terror and insecurity but we can't be together in dehumanizing a particular ethnic group.
The Somali ambassador to Kenya, yes, that one with a funny name (something somebody Americo) says that they took some 82 Somali immigrants back to Mogadishu!! I am told among the "immigrants" is one mentally challenged gentleman (regular beggar at jamia mosque) in Nairobi who was affected by what happened to his people in wagala 30 years ago.
This man with a funny name, did not even talk about the deplorable situation of the Kasarani camp. anyway he is called americo not Somalico!! hence layaab maleh....and His boss?? he was welcoming the Kenyan dream liner plane!! didn't you wonder, that he was the only foreign president in that function?? Somalis call him "culusow" maybe he takes time to figure out the magnitude of the problem. Or may be, he thinks and happy at the same time that Kenya will use the dream liner to take back the illegal immigrants to Mogadishu.

As for me, i was born in garissa, i dont have the BCG scar (chanjo) on my left hand, my mother, sisters, brothers, don't have it too. Many of them don't speak a word of Swahili. They don't know what terror is...