Government to resettle remaining IDPs

Government to resettle remaining IDPs

The government will from February start resettling and compensating all the remaining profiled Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country. This is the message that came after senior government officers and legislators stopped a march to State House by over 3,000 IDPs from Nyandarua County.

The victims of the 2007/08 Post Election Violence were stopped from proceeding with the march by top government officials who intercepted them in Naivasha with the promise that the government would resettle them.

During the demo, an elderly woman was hit by a speeding vehicle near the Gilgil Weighbridge. Reports indicate that she died while undergoing treatment at the Naivasha Sub-County Referral Hospital.

While consoling the IDPs, Special Programmes Principal Secretary Josephta Mukobe said that the government had not forgotten them.

He called for more time adding that she, and the new Cabinet Secretary for Devolution Mwangi Kiunjuri, were barely a month old in the office.

“We have held fruitful discussion and we have agreed that all issue pertaining to integrated IDPs will be addressed starting February,” she said.

Nakuru North Member of Parliament Kimani Ngunjiri admitted that the process of resettling the IDPs had taken a long time leading to their suffering.

Ngunjiri was, however, quick to defend the government noting that the new system of government had affected the resettlement and compensation plans.

“The President and his deputy are aware of your grievances and you can rest assured that all your worries will be fully addressed.”

However, Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria, while he was addressing the IDPs, said that it was a matter of time before their problems are fully resolved.

“Though there was a delay in fully resolving the problems facing the IDPs, there is a way forward and it is a matter of time before this is addressed,” he said.

However, the IDPs’ coordinator James Mwaura Njoroge termed the talks as fruitful and called on group to heed the directive and head back to their homes.

Early last year, IDPs from the Mohu Farm in Nyandarua County had also given the government a 30-day ultimatum to resettle them.

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Cabinet Secretary for Devolution Mwangi Kiunjuri IDPs from Nyandarua County Josephta Mukobe Nakuru North Member of Parliament Kimani Ngunjiri

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