Muhiyadin Dagane – Deputy project coordinator for MSF:
"If I talk about camp closure, we have a lot of witnesses regarding the situation in Somalia and we know that the government of Kenya has announced the closure of the camp come June 2022. Personally, I say it’s not the appropriate time because you’ll return asylum seekers or refugees to where there’s safety, peace and security. At the moment, in Somalia, the political situation is very high, temparatures are high, it is not settled, there’s conflict and the people who have voluntarily gone back to Somalia have met with insecure situation that has made them come back. So, it's not time we’ll say people can go back to Somalia. This is what people have known, quiet long, 30 years, some people were born here, they are married here, they have their children here and actually children who were born here are giving birth here. So, this is all they have known in their lives. Going back to Somalia, I think will be a disaster for these people at the moment. What we would recommend are durable solutions for the refugee population in Dadaab. The solution should come while they are here; better services which have reduced at the moment. I recommend services to come back as they used to be and maybe permanent solutions such as resettlement, some integrated into Kenya population and given education, identification whether it’s Kenya identification or refugee identification but freedom to move around, to do business will help this population."