Reports indicate that a new generation of Kenyans are being born in IDP camps, some already “celebrating” their 3rd birthdays!! The sad thing is that most die at birth or soon after given the harsh conditions in IDP camps.The child mortality rates are pathetically high. The tragedy is also that this generation will just be compounding the issues of historical injustices that have never been resolved.

A scenario will arise where some will be orphaned given the desperate and pathetic situations in camps which further reduces life expectancy of the parents. In another few years to come, we will be dealing with another explosive problem, children born in IDP camps, perhaps orphaned and if how the IDP cash is being handled is anything to go by, robbed of their right to land,compensation, truth and justice .

These will likely grown into bitter young men and women when they get to know the history of their lives, with no proper education and opportunities, they will resort to crime and vengeance against society that we have never known. Kenya will find itself dealing with crime rates only comparable to South Africa where soon after independence, most blacks found themselves disadvantaged in society where they thought independence would bring opportunities. Without good education, many found themselves disadvantaged and opportunities going to the well educated Africans, most from affluent families and the Afrikaners who were obviously well placed anyhow.

To that group, the rich Africans, the ones who had opportunities by virtue of having parents in position, business etc were not any different from the Afrikaners, the reason the crime is not targeted at the whites only as one would presume, but to the wealthy and well off or relatively well off. It is this kind of situation that we are breeding in the IDP camps. The same way, the children of MAU MAU morphed into Mungiki when they saw the sons and daughters of homeguards take over the country, land,power, and every trappings that goes with a free society, we are still living with effects of Mungiki.

We desperately need reforms that will bring sanity, reforms that will transform our society to a just, free and prosperous one, where every child born on this land has a fair chance in life and above all, where no one has the right to take these rights from another the way PEV did to these Kenyans now being born into abject poverty and a life of servitude. The more reason any anti reform agents amongst us, those with selfish stomach agenda at the expense of the good of this great nation must be shunned and exposed.

Otieno Sungu.
Juba-Southern Sudan
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