1992, 1998 clashes victims seek compensation

A team of ten lawyers is set to compile the data of the 1992 and 1998 clashes victims with a view of seeking compensation from the government.

Addressing journalists in Nakuru County on Wednesday, Human Resettlement Disaster Care (huredica) chairman, Francis Gitaari, revealed that the three-month process will be undertaken in Nakuru.

“The government has shown willingness to give the 291,000 victims a hearing,” he said.

Gitaari noted that although the government had done much to resettle victims of the 2007-2008 post poll skirmishes, little had been done to assist victims of the 1992 and 1998 clashes.

He disputed the notion that the clashes were tribal, claiming that they were orchestrated by certain people to prevent certain communities from voting following the introduction of multi-party politics.

“It is sad that the victims lost property while other people were maimed and killed in cold blood,” he said.

He lamented that some of the 1992 clash victims living in Molo had lost their land at Kivulini Molo to land grabbers.

The victims were required to pay allowance fees ranging from Ksh10,150 to about Ksh20, 000, with each getting two to five acres.

The exercise, which was overseen by the then Molo MP Joseph Kiuna and Nakuru District Land Registrar Morris Mugwiria, required the victims to vacate Kasarani slums within three months or risk losing the Kivulini land.

Last week, the victims who were left in the Kasarani slums held a demonstration demanding that the government resettles them like victims of the 2007-2008 post poll chaos.

During the process of compiling data the victims are required to produce documents such as copies of title deeds, land sale agreements, police abstracts among others.

Gitaari pointed out that the importance of producing the documents was to avoid fraudsters during the entire process.