The government has been asked to initiate a mechanism to ensure all internally displaced persons (IDPs) of the 2007 post-election violence are fully compensated.
Civil society groups drawn from the South and North Rift, led by Kericho Centre for Human Rights and Reconciliation executive officer Robert Ngeno, said they want the government to address the plight of the IDPs now that President Uhuru Kenyatta is free.
“We urge the president to allocate the victims yet to be resettled money as a way of reconciliation in the country,” Ngeno told our reporter.
He said that the best to help the victims of the 2007 post-election violence victims was to resettle them.
The new calls of resettlement of remaining victims of the violence comes at a time when the president’s crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal court (ICC) have been dropped.
The lobbyists said they needed to have an audience with President Kenyatta to give him the gist of the matter and a possible solution to the issue.
They blamed ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for what they termed as a shoddy work and a blow to the victims of the violence.
“The prosecution is entirely to blame for this unfortunate development because the prosecutor did not convince the chamber on the importance of information she was seeking from the government of Kenya,” said Ngeno.
They also said they will write to the office of the ICC prosecutor seeking information on the fate of those Fatou Bensouda claimed had bribed the witnesses in the case and seek to have them prosecuted.
While reiterating that the victims should get justice,the activists said that they will ensure that the prosecutor serves post-election victims with justice.