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Kikuyus Being Chased From Everywhere as Uhuru Looks On Helplessly

Kikuyus are being chased and no help seems to be forthcoming. Yesterday, there was a lot of MAYHEM, ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN going on in LODWAR TOWN. Mugo wa Wairimu a prominent blogger was heard crying: “As I write this, it’s all mayhem in Lodwar Town where angry Turkanas have broken into the Lodwar District Hospital Morgue and ransacking the bodies. Rioting and looting of shops and businesses owned by Kikuyus currently going on in Lodwar town. The violence is in reaction to the shooting dead of a Turkana by Turkana OCPD(a kikuyu)” As we went to press, help has not reached Lodwar and Kikuyus are panicking and running. Meanwhile in Somalia, the Somali people have retaliated against the Kenyan government which sent away their people.Kikuyus are being targeted in Somalia and are running back to Kenya in droves. Trouble for Kikuyus in Somalia started when Kenya ordered all refugees living in urban areas to return to their camps in a bid to end attacks by armed groups carried out in retaliation for Kenya’s intervention in neighbouring Somalia. Kenyans were asked to report any refugees or illegal immigrants outside the overcrowded camps – Dadaab in the east and Kakuma in the northwest – to the police, the AFP news agency reported on Tuesday. All refugees residing outside the designated refugee camps of Kakuma and Dadaab are hereby directed to return to their respective camps with immediate effect. Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenki “Any refugee found flouting this directive will be dealt with in accordance with the law,” Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said in a statement. Lenku issued the order citing “emergency security challenges” in Kenyan towns, but the move is likely to be criticised by rights groups which have discouraged similar actions in the past. Until now, refugees who could support themselves or were in need of specialised education or medical care had been allowed to live in urban areas. Lenku said “all refugees residing outside the designated refugee camps of Kakuma and Dadaab are hereby directed to return to their respective camps with immediate effect.” The refugees are now required to be housed at Dadaab, close to the Somali border, and at Kakuma, near Kenya’s frontier with South Sudan. To date, more than 2,000 Kikuyus have fled Somalia and left their businesses to the marauding Somalia. The Kenyan government caught between a rock and a hard place is looking on helplessly.
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