Nyeri Town Member of Parliament Ngunjiri Wambugu has revisited the aftermath of the 2007 post-election violence (PEV), making a special appeal to the victims.
The vocal lawmaker in a post on his Facebook account on Tuesday opined that despite the merger of the TNA and United Republican Party (URP) parties which brought unity among the different communities residing in Rift Valley, all has not been well because there are some people who have not managed to get back their property.
"This is an issue I would like to know the truth of before we get to 2022. We know that after the 2007 Post Election Violence over 600,000 people were forcefully displaced from Rift Valley. However, part of the reasons TNA & URP coalition formed the Jubilee Coalition to ensure that anyone who had still not managed to go back to their property, could do so. This was the essence ‘NEVER AGAIN’," wrote Wambugu.
"But I keep hearing that there still are people out here who have never been able to go back to their properties, that these properties of theirs are still inhabited by those who forced them out, in 2007," he added.
The legislator has appealed to anyone who happens to know somebody with supportive documents who has still not repossessed his or her property to contact him through his Facebook inbox.
"Do you know of any such person? A person with all ownership documents but whose property is still currently illegally occupied by someone else? Please send their details to my inbox. (We hope none exist) Asante," further read Wambugu's post.
The disputed 2007 general elections pitting the then incumbent President Mwai Kibaki against ODM leader Raila Odinga saw the country plunged into a warzone where thousands were displaced and others killed in an ethnic war.