A British journalist, Jerome Starkey, who was deported from Kenya and barred from visiting again, has sent a message to President Uhuru Kenyatta vowing that he will be back to the country.
Through his Twitter account, Starkey divulged that he was yet to be given a reason by the Kenyan government on why he was deported.
“I'll be back. Like a cockroach in the state house kitchen, you can't keep me out,” the Africa Correspondent for The Times in London wrote.
The British journalist went ahead and stated that the Eurobond scandal could have been the sole reason why he was kicked out the country.
“I have spoken to many contacts and gone through my notebooks to see what could possibly have triggered it and the reasons that lead me to believe it was my investigation into the Eurobond are compelling,” Starkey said.
Other reports had indicated that the Journalist was deported for trying to investigate the mysterious death of slain businessman Jacob Juma.
Mr Starkey was arrested on Thursday 8 at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and detained for 24 hours without any explanation.
On Saturday 10, he was kicked out of the country after being denied access to a lawyer and his passports confiscated.
Meanwhile, the editor of The Times wrote to President Kenyatta condemning Mr Starkey’s deportation as “an attack on the press” and “a matter of grave concern for Britons living in and visiting Kenya”.
"The Times took the decision to invest in Kenya four years ago by relocating our Africa bureau to Nairobi. His summary deportation would suggest to us, and to our many prominent readers, that Kenya is not open to freedom of expression,” wrote Mr John Witherow.
Mr Starkey had worked in Nairobi for more than four years.
