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Kenya: Visit Camps, Kibaki And Raila Told
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The East African Standard (Nairobi)
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 25 March 2008
Mutinda Mwanzia
Nairobi
President Kibaki and the prime minister-designate have been told to visit areas that bore the brunt of post-election violence.
Mbooni MP, Mr Mutula Kilonzo, on Tuesday said the plight of the displaced people in the Rift Valley Province had been ignored. He warned that reconciliation would not be achieved unless they were resettled.
"Kibaki and Raila should tour the camps and assure the displaced people of security if they returned to their homes,"he said.
The ODM-Kenya secretary-general deplored the poor conditions in refugee camps.
"We should not focus much on power-sharing, but must also ponder over those in the camps," he said.
And speaking in Parliament, Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka said Kibaki and Raila would tour Rift Valley this week.
More than 300,000 people were uprooted from their homes. Some have gone back since the signing of peace accord between Kibaki and Raila on Febrauary 28.
Rift Valley PC, Mr Hassan Noor Hassan, has said the Government was working out ways to ensure the displaced people returned home.
He said security would be improved, and they would be helped to rebuild their houses and plough farms.
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Mutula said the Government had the resources and machinery to guarantee security for the affected people once they returned to their farms.
He said with the onset of rains, there was the risk of disease outbreak in camps.
"The shacks they are living in cannot protect them from adverse weather," said Mutula.
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