PHOTO/FILE The Pipeline IDP Camp in Nakuru last year. IDPs have sued the government for what they claim as failure of the government to give them money to buy land.
By SIMON SIELE ssiele@ke.nationmedia.com and NOAH CHEPLOEN ncheploen@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Sunday, February 5 2012 at 21:12
Posted Sunday, February 5 2012 at 21:12
Internally displaced persons have sued the government for failing to give them money to buy land.
They also want the State compelled to pay for land that the victims of 2007/08 post election violence have identified.
Dr Peter Kinyanjui, Mr Livingstone Sowe, Mr Peter Tena, Mr Wilfred Manyara, Ms Margaret James and Mr Charles Mwangi filed the case on Thursday last week in the Nakuru High Court.
The six filed the suit in their capacity as officials of Kenya National Organisation of Victims of Ethnic Clashes.
They have sued the office of the Attorney General, the state, PS Ministry of Lands, Special Programmes and that of Finance. (READ: Githae: Shilling and IDPs 'my priorities')
Their decision to seek legal redress was allegedly motivated by recent announcement by the PS in the Ministry of Special Programmes Andrew Mondoh who had requested IDPs to identify suitable land for resettlement whose value did not exceed Sh450,000.
The government would then buy the land for them.
The lobby group claims in their affidavit that they had identified several properties but the government was yet to honour its payment pledge.
Such properties include Matigari Kianugu Investment measuring approximately 500 acres, some 1,776 acres at Ciasmara/Ewaso Ngiro and Ciasmara Lemek among others. They want the government to resettle more than 300,000 people.
Meanwhile, IDP Network chairperson Patrick Githinji has asked police to arrest those using the recent confirmation of charges by the ICC to spread hate speech.
He commended ICC for their “credible” process which he noted will pursue justice on behalf of more than 1,000 victims killed during the 2008 political crisis.
He accused the government of neglecting IDPs.
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