Uasin Gishu County Commissioner Abdi Hassan speaks to the press in Eldoret town on January 9, 2018. [Photo: Joe Khisa]
A multi-agency team comprising of police, the county government of Uasin Gishu, Children's department and human rights organizations is back to the drawing board to strategize on how to handle the street children issue in Eldoret town.
This is after an attempt to rid the street families from the Uasin County's capital seemed to have failed.
The team conducted an operation towards the end of last year which saw over 100 street children taken to the rescue centre but days later some of the rescued children were back to the streets.
Speaking to the press in Eldoret town on Tuesday, Uasin Gishu County Commissioner Abdi Hassan insisted that the process of removing all street children from the town will continue.
"We've not given up on this initiative of making Eldoret town free from street families. We are planning a meeting with relevant stakeholders so as to re-strategize on the best way to handle this situation going forward," Hassan said.
"What we're interested in is seeing those street children get a human place to live in, go to school and also have access to other basic services like health services and we shall not rest until we achieve that," he added.
Eldoret has an estimated 2,000 street children some of who are said to be from poor background families living in informal settlements around the town.