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Land feuds prevent hundreds of IDPs from settling down

Internally Displaced Persons at Pipeline IDP camp on the outskirts of Nakuru town re-erect a tent. PHOTO | JOSEPH KIHERI | FILE

What you need to know:

  • The government’s plan to resettle 823 internally displaced families from New Canaan IDP camp at Pipeline Nakuru on newly acquired farms in Njoro and Subukia has failed

Camps for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Nakuru that housed thousands of families are yet to be closed after wrangles emerged over the farms recently acquired for them by the government.

Although a large number of IDPs moved to the new farms during the resettling schemes, some who claim to be un-profiled are still in the camps while integrated IDPs are bemoaning their exclusion from the programme that saw many resettled and others paid Sh400,000 to rebuild their lives.