Approximately 5,000 KCSE and KCPE candidates from the Kakuma and Dadaab camps are set to miss the 2016 national exams.
This is if the Kenyan government trashes their plea to stay until the examinations period expires.
According to UNHCR statistics, a total of 4,575 students are headed to sit for this year's national exams with a massive 3,429 pupils expected to sit for class eight while another 1,146 students will sit for their form four examinations.
The refugee students through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have directed their appeals to the state to consider them and further postpone the repatriation until they sit for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams scheduled for November.
As per government schedules, the repatriation process is set to kick off in July 1 and will end five months later in November 2016. Somalia refugees will take the first priority since they make up the bulk of refugees at Dadaab complex, followed by their South Sudanese counterparts.
With only Sh1 billion allocated and barely a week to go, Interior Coordination ministry and secretary of Administration, Joseph Irungu has said close to 5,000 refugees had voluntarily opted to return to their home nations.