We are a group of Kenyans in Finland who have been following the story of a Kenyan diplomat who has been working at the Kenyan embassy in Stockholm and who is facing deportation to Kenya.
For a long time, the diplomat has been of great help to Kenyans living in Scandinavian countries. He has been one of the most reliable staff member at the Embassy in Sweden but the way the Kenyan government has been treating him since he fell sick a year ago is in bad taste.
The diplomat has been under treatment for a while at Karolinska Hospital until this week when he was given a 4 day’s notice to vacate his house, get out of hospital and get ready to travel back to Kenya by last Thursday 22nd November yet he is bed ridden.
There was a great intervention by a group of Kenyans in Stockholm which prompted the Swedish government to stop his repatriation to Kenya. Nevertheless, how long will the future of the diplomat and his family be uncertain? His family has been kicked out of their home to a cold winter. As Kenyans resident in Finland, our basic questions are as follows;
1. Why is the diplomat being taken back to Kenya yet the doctors in Sweden are managing his condition?
2. The diplomat’s health condition is bad and this should stop any action as far as the issue of deportation is concerned. How could the person arranging the diplomat’s deportation feel if he or she were in the diplomats situation? Si uwe na utu jameni !
3. How can a notice to vacate the house and travel to Kenya within a specific deadline be issued to a bed ridden patient whom Doctors have confirmed, is unfit to travel?
4. Does our government appreciate his many years of service while he was a diplomat? Is this the way to treat a diplomat whose tour of duty is over?
5. Where will the family reside while the patient is being managed, now that they have been given a notice to vacate the house and their property packed in a container ready for shipping to Kenya.
It is unjust, inhuman, barbaric and evil on the part of the government of Kenya to throw away a Kenyan patriot who volunteered his services and left his loved ones back home to make a better future for Kenya.
The Kenyan Embassy officials should know that the diplomat didn´t choose to get sick and that the action of trying to deport him to Kenya destroyed the image of Kenya Internationally, the same image they are trying to preserve.
As concerned Kenyans resident in Finland, we wish to voice our deep disappointment with H.E the Ambassador Mrs Purity Muhindi and all those who took part in the dirty conspiracy to deport the diplomat after taking a filthy decision against the health interests of a bed ridden patient who has served the Embassy diligently and with obedience for many years. It is shame shame shame!
Please, if you wouldn´t mind your Excellency, pack your belongings and your family and go back home since you are healthy to travel. You could have changed the first class air ticket reserved for the patient and take it yourself. Same applies to members of staff who in one way or another participated in this dirty conpspiracy.
Our sincere thanks goes to all those Kenyans in Sweden for their extraordinary courage to act as patriots to save the life of the ailing Embassy diplomat who has suffered terrible shock as a result of the Embassy action. May God have mercy on Him.
Edward Kipkoech on behalf of:
Kenyans in Finland
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