Anti-riot police stay vigil during a post-election demonstration in Kondele, Kisumu last week where lives and property were lost and scores sustained injuries. [Photo: hivisasa.com]
The government has been asked to compensate victims of last week’s post-election violence.
Former Karachuonyo Member of Parliament Phoebe Asiyo, said that women and children were hardest hit urging the government to move with promptness and support healing in the affected zones.
Asiyo said the government must pay or reimburse hospital bills for those who suffered injuries in the course of the protests.
"The government should attend to the serious abuses of human rights raised and take swift action," said the former legislator.
She noted many women were suffering in silence after being raped and roughed up by police officers urging the government to ask for forgiveness over the happenings.
"Nothing can heal parents who lost their children and those who were wounded. The government must be concerned for the healing to be realized," added Asiyo.
Millicent Otieno, Local Capacities for Peace Initiative (LCPI) Director, revealed that most of the women who were affected were yet to come out and speak.
“The ethnic profiling we are witnessing where people's fundamental rights have been trampled-upon and the government asserts they are goons must stop," she said, Thursday.