Nairobi (Sunatimes) International aid agency, Oxfam, has called on the Kenyan government to receive Somali refugees arriving Dadaab refugee camps in northeastern Kenya.

Oxfam’s chief in Kenya, Joosta Van de Lest, said Kenya has refused to open a new camp in Dadaab refugee camps to allow in over ten thousand Somali refugees fleeing their country due to the devastating droughts and political instability in the country.

Van de lest says at least 1, 400 new asylum seekers arrive daily in Dadaab camps while 70,000 others flock to Dolo Ado in Ethiopia seeking humanitarian aid.

Oxfam says it has completed in laying water pipes, and other necessity need in the nearly complete Ifo 2 camp, curved from an over-crowded Ifo camp despite kenya’s initial go-head in decongesting refugee camps in the area but later refused the opening of the new camp citing security reasons.

The agency is worried of possible outbreak of diseases in the already congested Dadaab refugee camps with daily influx of more than sixty thousand new arrivals reaching the three camps in Dabaab.

By Abdifitah Ibrahim