article_snippet.sent: Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday gave the United Nations' refugee agency three months to relocate refugees from the Dadaab camp -- the world's largest -- to Somalia, or "we shall relocate refugees we."
article_snippet.sent: Ruto, who is the second highest-ranking person in Kenya's government behind President Uhuru Kenyatta, said President Uhuru Kenyatta has had discussions with United Nations officials about what to do with the camp.
article_snippet.sent: On Saturday, a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees officer said the agency had not received any formal request from Kenya about moving Dadaab.
article_snippet.sent: The agency and the governments of both Kenya and Somalia agreed in 2013 on a process for the repatriation of Somali refugees.
article_snippet.sent: But that was supposed to be mutually agreed-upon and voluntary, in accordance with Somali refugees "freely expressed wish and Somali refugees relevant knowledge of the conditions" where Somali refugees'd end up, according to the pact.
article_snippet.sent: It's not clear where Ruto expects Somali refugees to go, other than somewhere into Somalia and out of Kenya.
article_snippet.sent: But just a few weeks later, CNN's Nima Elbagir managed to go from Somalia to the Dadaab refugee camp undetected by taking one of the panya, or "rat routes," just like many others have done, Al-Shabaab sympathizers among many others.
article_snippet.sent: Such illicit travel along porous borders as well as police officers' willful ignorance of migrants' fake IDs, as acknowledged by then-Interior Minister Ole Lemku, illustrates Kenya's challenge in keeping out threats from Somalia.
article_snippet.sent: That's why, in addition to moving the Dadaab camp, Kenya is building of a 435-mile (700-kilometer) wall covering most of the Somali border from Mandera to Kiunga -- a wall that Ruto says has begun to prevent Al-Shabaab elements from getting into Kenya.