About 2,000 integrated IDPs from Subukia sub-county, Nakuru county, have called on the government to enlist them among the beneficiaries of the last phase of IDPs compensation.
Addressing journalists in Nakuru on Wednesday, the IDPs said despite having all the necessary documents to justify their claim, government of the day through the ministry of devolution and planning has neglected them.
While displaying copies of police abstracts and crop damage assessment reports from agricultural extension officers, the 2007/8 post election skirmishes victims said: “We have written several letters to the government but our plight has not been addressed at all”.
The victims said that they only received relief food from the government three times after they sought refuge from well-wishers and family friends at the height of the 2007/2008 skirmishes.
They expressed fear that they might be left out of the compensation exercise expected to end soon.
A case filed by the IDPs against the government of Kenya in 2011, at the Nakuru high court is yet to kick off.
“The government authorities, right from the chief to the president knows that we are IDPs. We sleep in our unpaid rental houses, under one roof with our sons and daughters, some of whom do not even go to school because we don’t have money for school fees. We are Kenyans and we deserve compensation too,” said Jonathan Olang’o.