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Want a piece of IDP land? That’ll be $866 only
The government will spend Sh1.4 billion to buy land and another Sh432 million to compensate integrated IDPs s in Nyanza, Western and Central provinces. Photo/FILE
Posted Monday, December 28 2009 at 00:00
About 30 elders from the area have met the Rift Valley provincial commissioner, Osman Warfa over the resettlement, complaining that the government favours IDPs and is doing very little for the 25,000 squatters in the area.
Mr Warfa said the government bought 8,232 acres to resettle IDPs in Nakuru, Molo and Ol Kalou.
He said his role as the provincial administrator is to provide logistics and ensure security of the displaced families.
Anyone who tries to interfere with the resettlement will be arrested, he warned.
According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, there are between 181,000 and 200,000 internally displaced people in Kenya.
This figure takes into account the government’s return programme that involved some 172,000 people during the post-election violence of December 2007.
They returned home in May 2008.
By its own admission, the government said in early June 2008 that it had no accurate figures of IDPs.
However, it is assumed that most of them are yet to return home and were either living in host communities or in “transit camps” set up by the government closer to where people were displaced from.
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