Following President Uhuru’s announcement via the forum held at the Atlantic Council about Kenya evacuating its students trapped in Wuhan, Ugandan students in China have come up to ask what they did to deserve the kind of treatment they’re getting from an unbothered government at home.
The inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Prime minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda on the 1st of February had concluded that Ugandan students and citizens in China should stay there and continuously observe preventive measures put up by the Chinese government. An act seen by many as cowardly and uncouth.
President Kenyatta has gone ahead to state that Nairobi was putting in place stringent measures to ensure the virus does not enter Kenya.
“We are tirelessly working because we have got a good number of our students there, to see how we can support them and find out how we can also, when they do come and insist they are coming, ensure that they are put in quarantine for the required 14 days and ensure that they are not going to spread that virus around.”
At least 100 Ugandan students are based in Wuhan, the capital of Hebei Province in China.
Ugandan students in China have resorted to various online initiatives to ensure there return. Some taking to the streets of twitter in anguish while others turn to God for divine mercy. Needless to say “We want our brothers brought home.”
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