IDPs challenge Uhuru to keep relocation promise

By Antony Gitonga                          

NAIVASHA, KENYA: Hundreds of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from various camps in Naivasha and Gilgil have challenged President elect Uhuru Kenyatta to keep his promise of resettling them in a hundred days.

While welcoming the decision by the Supreme Court the victims of the post election said that their hope of being resettled lay with the new president.

In various camps it was song and dance as the IDPs celebrated the court decision and thanked Kenyans for being peaceful.

According to one of the victim Beatrice Kaara, they had high hopes of getting resettled after waiting for years.

Kaara from Ebenezer camp in Gilgil said that during the campaign the Jubilee coalition promised to resettle all the IDPs in three months after coming into office.

“We are happy with the Supreme Court decision and we now challenge Uhuru and his team to make their promise true,” she said.

She said that they were undergoing suffering in the camps adding that the promised resettlement had stalled.

“Its currently raining heavily and many tents are soaked with water and we call for speedy resettlement,” she said.

Her sentiments were echoed by Rose Wanjiku from Jikaze camp in Mai Mahiu who said that justice had been done.

Wanjiku said that the last weeks were full of tension and anxiety as they awaited the court ruling on the petition.

“We are happy with the decision and we now call on the new government to make true its promise of resettling us,” she said.

Meanwhile normalcy returned to Naivasha town after a day of celebrations to mark the ruling by the Supreme Court.