A section of Kenyan Students who just left Sudan are now accusing the government of lying to have facilitated their escape from the warring country.
The students who have since left Sudan said the government was unfairly taking credit for an escape plan, they claim to have organized and funded themselves.
Nonetheless, the principal secretary for foreign and diaspora affairs Roseline Njogu said they facilitated the crossing of 29 students from Kenya into Ethiopia, where they would then fly them back to their home countries.
“What a sight for sore eyes! Part of a group of 29 Diaspora now in Gondor, Ethiopia who fled Sudan. Facilitated by our team in Ethiopia, and Nairobi. Brave kids! From here, we fly them home,” a post on her Twitter account read in part, along with a photo of 27 students.
However, one of the students told BBC on Tuesday, April 25 they figured out how to get to Gondar on their own to the Kenyan Embassy in Ethiopia to seek assistance.
The students reported that they paid around Ksh.40,000 from their pocket aside from the money they spent bribing Sudanese police officers severally on the way.
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“Honestly it wasn’t easy… We didn’t eat for two days – the focus was on running for our dear lives. I’m glad that I took the risk to escape the war zone,” said the students.
They further added that they managed to escape the Rapid Support Forces along the road amid criminals on the move.
These comes following the ongoing war in Sudan’s capital where forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan have been confronting those of his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the RSF.
As such, UN agencies have reported more than 427 people dead with more than 3,700 wounded.
Furthermore, the first group of Kenyan evacuees in the country arrived in Nairobi aboard a military plane on Monday evening.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the evacuees included 39 students, among them 19 Kenyans, 19 Somalis, and one Saudi Arabian national.