Kenya: Proposal to Give Money to IDPs Means a Lot

opinion

Nairobi — It is a huge statement the proposal Kenya's internally displaced persons are given money to buy land.

One, what this proposal says, in Kenyan political parlance, is that the IDPs are not wanted. Hawatakikani. What that means is that the dominant groups among whom they had settled do not want them to go back and reclaim their domiciles and property.

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