Over 400 Chinese nationals want to return to China over what they have termed as discrimination and governments inability to handle covid 19 should they fall sick.
Through tbeir lawyer Isaac Okinyo, they managed to move High court judge honorable
Justice Weldon Korir who ruled in their favour, and should be able to return home on June 16.
Through their lawyer, Isaac Okinyo they told the www.goodmorning Kenya that some of the affected parties have underlying conditions hence vulnerable to the coronavirus.
“We went to court last week and argued why it was necessary for the Chinese to be evacuated since they are considered vulnerable. I don’t think there is anything to stop them. We were given the go-ahead to process their evacuation.
“They have underlying conditions and others just don’t feel safe here. The Kenyan government is facing a huge task on maintaining isolation centres which are full, testing and contact tracing is also a challenge. Let them just go back home as they wish,” Okinyo said.
What is left, Mr Okinyo, revealed was approval from the Raychelle Omamo-led Foreign Affairs ministry.
Further, the Chinese decried discrimination ever since the first case of coronavirus was reported in Kenya. This was in mid-March.
“The other day, I went to a supermarket and people fled. In hospitals where we go for check-ups, the medics always insist that we should be tested for Covid-19. I am not sure whether I will come back to Kenya,” a Chinese woman complained
