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Category: Diaspora News

Written by Kim

Over 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons yesterday vowed that they will boycott general election set for next year. The IDPS  who were uprooted from their farms in 1992 in Lugari,Trans-Nzoia and Uasin Gishu said they do not see the need of voting. Led by their chairman Eliud Mlinga and their co-ordinator John Musyami, the IDPs claim the general election will only remind them of the painful wounds that have taken long to heal. "We are going to dispose our voting cards the same way the leaders we voted for 20 years back abandoned us," said the angry IDPs.

They accused the leaders of being insensitive to their plight and only remember them during elections when they come to solicit for votes. The IDPIs complain they have suffered enough and no one seems to care over their plight. Charles Andulu, an IDP from Trans-Nzoia said he still nurses wounds on his leg after he was shot by a bullet and arrow by his attackers.

Andulu said it was only by sheer luck that he survived the incident. ''All my fourteen children took off upto date I have seen none of them. I don't know wherther they are alive or dead," said Andulu. Another victim Harrison Wakoli said he was forced to flee his farm in Kaptaba, Uasin Gishu county following the clashes. He said he servicing the loan he used to buy the land has become difficult.