Kenya: MPs Warn Over Rush to Return Refugees - The Nation

Hope for a quick resettlement of internal refugees could be jolted today when MPs from the Rift Valley meet President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga with a recommendation to delay the move until the root causes of the January violence are established by the proposed Justice, Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Author: putdown08

when these leaders organized the mayhem they had an agenda. The violence ended before they could accopmlish their mission. These clashes occur during elections is because the 'foreigners' are seen as people who can influence the outcome of local politics and national politics. Politicians incite their followers to desfrancise the foreigners or force them to vote on a certain way. so since there will always be elections these clashes will occur. The government can buy the land of idps sell it to kalenjins then buy land from other areas and settle them there.

Author: temu1922

Franklin Bett, Zakayo Cheruiyot, and William Ruto can no longer hide behind the claim of stolen elections as the cause of violence. It is now very clear they have and had an interest in the violence. If not why resist resettlement of IDPs?. Were the IDPs resettled so that Franklin Bett can become minister?. The Special Branch (or CID), Nyayo house, and the law regarding the powers of the secret service should be reviewed to give it powers to act decicively. That way Franklin Bett, Zakayo Cheruiyot, William Ruto, Mungiki and any other tribal thugs will be contained. We cannot live in the past. A strong and effective secret servive gives the impression of continous security because the officers are trained armed and are usually diguised. In such cases organised crime with the aim of arm twisting the goverment cannot be achieved easily. Do we want to develop or listen to failures?. Sorry my Kalenjin brothers 98% of you are innocent and do not deserve such fellows. Kikuyus in general should learn to respect, live and share with others as a matter of emergency. temu1922.

Author: temu1922

Franklin Bett, Zakayo Cheruiyot, and William Ruto can no longer hide behind the claim of stolen elections as the cause of violence. It is now very clear they have and had an interest in the violence. If not why resist resettlement of IDPs?. Were the IDPs resettled so that Franklin Bett can become minister?. The Special Branch (or CID), Nyayo house, and the law regarding the powers of the secret service should be reviewed to give it powers to act decicively. That way Franklin Bett, Zakayo Cheruiyot, William Ruto, Mungiki and any other tribal thugs will be contained. We cannot live in the past. A strong and effective secret servive gives the impression of continous security because the officers are trained armed and are usually diguised. In such cases organised crime with the aim of arm twisting the goverment cannot be achieved easily. Do we want to develop or listen to failures?. Sorry my Kalenjin brothers 98% of you are innocent and do not deserve such fellows. Kikuyus in general should learn to respect, live and share with others as a matter of emergency. temu1922.

Author: snyamuus

It is very intriguing to hear a Kenyan raising objections to the resettling of the displaced people. It is inhuman, selfish and immoral. When one reads or sees the deplorable state the displaced persons are living in, a human being must be touched. You can imagine the trauma that may now disturb some people for the rest of their lives. Why can’t you be touched? If you are so materially inclined, so you are comfortable and you don’t care about anyone else; when you believe that their resettlement might deny you votes in future elections, because you were voted in because of making a solemn promise that these foreigners must go and now they are back and If you believed that you have to be made minister in the Kenya government and now you are not. I have said before, and I am saying it again here that unless you repent, and part of the repentance is an unconditional acceptance that you used the wrong premises of getting votes, you will never have peace. The statement made by one leader, Henry Kosgey recently, "A lot of water has gone under the bridge. We need to tell the truth and see justice done. We shall not forget, but we can forgive". One wonders what he is forgiving, if he is not talking of resettling and apologizing to the victims he and his colleagues caused to be displaced. Who beat them up, who displaced them, who killed people in a church and other places, and what was the reason for this? This appears to be accepting the resettlement of the victims grudgingly. This is not sufficient healing and looks like any time such a person would sponsor and support the same evictions and killings. For proper healing to take place, those who evicted and supported the same must ungrudgingly and unconditionally accept this was wrong and now they are accepting that these people be resettled. There can be no conditions or negotiations to go back to a piece of land or property you had legally owned and were displaced after the results of the elections were announced. If rigging of elections was the reason for killing and evicting people, then you must know that it was not only a primitive method but also wrong and so disgraceful, but one word especially describes it best, 'displeasing to God'and so "sinful" because of directing brutality to the wrong people. That is why there must be repentance for total healing and hence peace. Those grandstanding because they were not made ministers are wasting their time and calling for more of God’s wrath on them, irrespective of the wealth they have acquired. Let them know that the money they have, most of which, obviously illegally gotten, will not give them peace. Check carefully and you will see most are nursing blood pressure, diabetes and others. Money or even political positions will not help. John 4:13-14 says “Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” No mater what position or wealth you have, will never on its own give you peace and satisfaction. One late senior officer of the Moi government is said to have made the following remark one time when he was being helped by a young man onto an airline seat to go for treatment abroad, "young man, I wish you have my money, and I have your health". The displaced people must be resettled unconditionally and more repentance done or you will all repeat what this late senior government officer had to say.



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