Comments on: Refugee leader tortured in Nakuru

By: Blunders mar Kibaki’s presidency « The Nairobi Chronicle

Blunders mar Kibaki’s presidency « The Nairobi Chronicle — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:35:16 +0000

[...] In the Rift Valley province, which bore the worst of the violence, the government launched “Operation Go Home.” Without going into the sordid details, Operation Go Home involved pushing refugees into army trucks then dumping them in isolated, violence-prone farming fields with no food supplies, no housing and no sanitation facilities. Ironically, many of these refugees are from Kibaki’s Kikuyu ethnic group. They had initially been promised some form of monetary compensation to help them rebuild but the money is yet to come. Those lucky enough to get the promised funds were given Shs10,000 (US$150) each. A few refugees who have been mobilizing resistance to the forceful closure of camps have been tortur… [...]

By: cheruto

cheruto — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:09:38 +0000

I think there should be some seriousness in this IDP issue!

By: kemunto

kemunto — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:01:53 +0000

I think there should be some seriousness in this IDP issue!

By: beverly

beverly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:59:53 +0000

let the government not take advantage of the situation of the kenyan IDPs to treat them so unfairly.let them try and be a bit human.

By: lynne

lynne — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:57:07 +0000

I think the jenyan government should get a bit serious in dealing with the police force regarding the issue of the IDPs,and should try and deal with the IDPs in a suble manner.