CEOAFRICA gathered that following the Westgate attack and the continuing investigation into the case, Kenya’s interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku has sacked 15 immigration officers

According to him, the officials had endangered national security by issuing identity documents to illegal immigrant, and he said they would appear in court to face the law.

 He also said the government would start repatriating Somali refugees, to prevent further attacks.

Mr. Lenku also said that the government would also be carrying out a thorough audit of identity cards and passports issued in the country in the last two years, the exercise he said will enable them flush out all those who have been issued with illegal passports and other identification documents.

While addressing journalist, he said “we have welcomed with open arms, refugees fleeing from insecurity in neighbouring countries but we won't allow them to harm us’’.

About 67 people died when militants from the Somali Islamist al-Shabab group attacked the Nairobi shopping centre last month.

Kenya is host to the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab - home to about half a million people - near the Somali border, while it is believed that more than 30,000 Somali refugees live in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, alone.