Director of Eldoret Human Rights and Mitigation center Nick Omito. [Photo: Joe Khisa]
The county government of Uasin Gishu has been asked to do a comprehensive vetting of all the street children in Eldoret town before making a decision to reunite them with their families.
This is in relation to an ongoing operation aimed at removing all the street families from the county's capital.
Speaking to the press at the Eldoret rescue center where the street families are being taken, the Director of Eldoret Human Rights and Mitigation Centre Nick Omito further, however, lauded the manner in which the operation was being handled.
"We are glad this process has been handled humanly unlike in the past and we hope it will go on this way to end," noted Omito on Tuesday.
"However we ask that proper vetting is done to know the status if of the street children before making that decision to reunite them with their families," he added.
The multi-agency operation that began on Monday has seen 80 children rescued from the streets and taken to the rescue center with 120 adults who are members of the street families also arrested and handed over to police for further interrogation.
"This will be a holding ground for these children where we will process, screen and interview them to find where they are from before we reintegrate them with the families," noted Uasin Gishu Children Services department director Julius Yator.
This will be the second time the governor Jackson Mandago led-administration is attempting to remove all street families in Eldoret town.
A similar exercise was conducted about two years ago where the county government came under fire for rounding up the tens of street children and dumping them in Busia and Bungoma counties.
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