In January 2013, over 100 Internally Displaced Persons families in Pipeline camp, Nakuru county, threatened not to vote in the March 4, 2013, election unless they were resettled before polling day. "Identity-based politics and contested land rights are the cause and consequence of cycles of displacement in multi-ethnic regions. Waweru records that the IDPs' compensation and resettlement processes faced a myriad bottlenecks that ranged from corruption by government implementing officials to unmet expectations of the target beneficiaries. Many thought the suffering of discriminated against IDPs would be alleviated by the new Prevention, Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons and Affected Communities Act, 2012. The National Land Policy (2009) recommends measures to protect the rights of both informal settlers and land owners from forced evictions.

Source: The Star January 02, 2021 02:03 UTC