The hope of compensation by the government for victims displaced in Molo during the 1992 clashes faded Monday as the Devolution Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri revealed that the law only recognizes those displaced after the 2007/08 post election violence.
Kiunjuri was addressing a Parliamentary committee on the implementation of resolutions passed by MPs.
According to the Star, Kiunjuri said the IDP Act limited resettling of IDPs to those after the post poll chaos.
The CS further stated that all the IDP camps for the 2007 post-election violence had been closed, and those affected resettled including IDPs from Molo who were affected in the 2007/08 clashes.
“The Molo victims displaced in 1992, which is earlier than what is provided for by the Act have not been compensated. I wish to request MPs to amend the Act so that the government can resettle more IDPs, especially those displaced in 1992 in Molo and Enoosupukia,” said Kiunjuri.
Hundreds of Molo residents were displaced from their homes during the 1992 tribal clashes.