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Fat cats used IDP cash to buy posh city homes
File picture of an IDP camp in Eldoret. Police say PC and 22 DCs stole Sh500m meant for the resettlement of internally displaced persons. File
Posted Wednesday, June 2 2010 at 21:52
Some of the areas that haboured IDPs in the country included parts of Eldoret, Trans Nzoia, Kwanza Uasin Gishu, Molo, Naivasha, Nakuru Koibatek among others in Rift Valley province. Others were parts of Western, Nyanza and Nairobi provinces.
With nowhere to call home after their houses were completely destroyed in the violence, the IDP’s were forced to seek alternative land where they constructed makeshift camps.
It is in these camps that they endured difficult living conditions like diseases and changing weather forcing the government, through the ministry of Special Programmes, to intervene.
The ministry initiated a resettlement plan dubbed “Operation Rudi Nyumbani”.
Additional reporting by Dave Opiyo
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