The hope of 1992 ethnic clash victims is dwindling day by day despite numerous promises of settlement made by the government close to nine years ago.
1,253 families in the larger Molo district were allocated Sh400 million in 2006-07 budgets when the then finance minister Amos Kimunya announced that the government would use the allocation to purchase land for their settlement.
The clash victims who have been counting double tragedy after being swept by subsequent violence that affected Molo, Njoro, and Kuresoi districts are now pressing the government to honour pledges it has been promising since the clashes plummeted their hard earned investments.
“Since the first multiparty election our dreams have faded. The 1,500 acres of land bought for by government to resettle us was issued to squatters who had been living in a shanty village of Kasarani in Elburgon,” said the 1992 ethnic clash group secretary, Francis Mbuthia.
The victims who are currently living in slums in Molo, Elburgon, Njoro, Turi, and Mau Narok blamed the government for neglecting them and instead resettling only a handful of the evictee leaving the majority out.
Most of the evictees said they were shocked to learn that the land which was allocated for them had been dished to undeserving people.
Mbuthia said, 22 years down the line 1,253 families are still languishing in abject poverty.
They claimed that the government had not taken action even after receiving the Kennedy Kiluki, the Akiwumi commission of inquiry and the Ndung’u reports.
The group is now threatening to sue the government for failing to compensate the 1992 ethnic clash victims.