IDP’s in Nakuru in TROUBLE as process to resettle them is stopped due to FRESH TENSION.

The Kenyan DAILY POSTNews03:13

Tuesday March 19, 2013 - The fate of the over 900 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in Nakuru hangs in the balance after the process to resettle them was suspended following fresh ethnic tension that has rocked the entire process.

This is after the newly elected leaders of the respective communities in the just concluded General Election objected to the move. The leaders claim that fresh negotiations on whether or not to resettle the IDPs on the Rose Farm should start afresh, since they were not part of the earlier agreement which resolved to have IDPs resettled there.

Just before elections, the former Narok leader William Ole Ntimama had agreed to have IDP’s resettled in Narok after a last minute change of heart since he was opposed to the idea at first.

However, his successor Mr.Samuel Tunen has greatly differed with Ntimama and now wants the process for distribution of the over 2,400 acres of land to the IDPs to start afresh.

Yesterday, the Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner Mr. Osman Warfa confirmed that he had asked Esther Murugi, Minister for Special Programmes, to suspend the resettlement process in the area until new leaders are consulted to avoid ethnic clashes.

The Maasai community had strongly rejected IDPs being resettled on their land which they say is their ancestral land.

The Kenyan DAILY POST