Prime Cabinet Secretary and Acting Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi revealed on Wednesday, April 2, that the government will not compensate any of the over 5,000 Kenyan refugees in Ethiopia seeking to return.
Mudavadi was speaking at the Senate, where he was responding to queries by Senators over the 5,671 individuals in the Dillo and Megado regions who fled the country in the early 2000s.
In his response, the Mudavadi clarified the government's role in the process of repatriating Kenyan refugees in foreign countries. "The government only facilitates return and reintegration into Kenyan society for any Kenyan refugee granted asylum by any country.
No compensation is paid by the government for any returning Kenyan," Mudavadi stated. An image of refugees at the Kakuma refugee camp.
