IDPs raise concern over 15-year delay in c*mpensation
Survivors of the 2007/08 post-election violence in the country have decried the delay in government compensation, 15 years later, despite the money being set aside for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The over 16,000 survivors, under the IDPs Association of Kenya umbrella, and led by their chairman, John Mbugua (pictured), have said that the promise to compensate them had not materialised. They say each member was to receive Sh400,000.
The government had also set aside Sh1.4 billion aimed at buying land for resettling the affected families countrywide.
According to a report by the United Nations, over 600,000 Kenyans were displaced from their homes with over 1,500 people losing their lives following the violence that rocked the country after the heavily-contested polls.
Lose property
Nakuru county was one of the worst hit regions by the skirmishes that saw people lose their property and life.
Zachariah Njoroge, a victim of the violence has called upon the government to speed up the compensation process saying that he lost over 40 heads of goats and his parcel of land which were his source of livelihood.
