A crime is a crime. Reconciliation has nothing to do with punishing a crime. That’s what laws are there for. Laws are there FULL TIME and must be adhered to. If your brother, father or kids were massacred by some one for whatever reason they have, that’s murder. Would you be happy and show a smiley face shaking your relatives murderer? Am sure you won’t. Lets not give all excuses and reasons to justify one party or the other. We should be concerned about the welfare of the entire nation. When the Kalenjins,Kambas, Luos, Gikuyus etc hurt, the whole country hurts.
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Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 07:17:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: MlaJasho Kamili
Subject: RE: Karua, Kibaki Confused in the Resettlement Scheme-Bound to Fail
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Resettlement of the displaced people should have happened yesterday. There should be no vertical or horizontal consultation, these are people who need to go back to their homes.  Any delay is an act legitimizing the illegal displacement of people by cold and heartless people.Â
The government should arrest all those barbaric and backward people talking about consultation or giving conditions. You have a criminal invade your property and now you have to meet conditions of the criminal to get back your property?
Any politician talking about conditions should not only loose his cabinet position but should be barred from parliament forever.
There should be time consultation and time for enforcing the law strongly.
Nkuraya
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Date:Â Thu, 1 May 2008 13:03:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:Â charles nkuraya
Subject:Â Re: Karua, Kibaki Confused in the Resettlement Scheme-Bound to Fail
Bwana Nkuraya,
It seems you do understand the dynamics of the IDPs.
Note that without Majimbo systems in place, no assusrance of the Gikuyus safety anywhere in Kenya or untill the Homeguard give them back the land they grabbed from their fore-fathers ( former Mau Mau fighters)
In fact the current Internal Displace Persons (IDPs) crisis is flawed with high level of corruption masterminded by the same Mt Kenya Mafia land grabbers, to fraudulently woo compensations from both Kenya government and the international community to their henchmen.
It is indeed shameful for Kenya government to hurriedly accept to resettle fake IDPs and the grandchildren of the Mau Mau fighters in the Kalenjin land while their own land are in the hands of the Homeguards in the current government.
Rev Okoth Otura
http://www.cdmk.org
The whole resettlement of the IDPs and also of the need for an impartial dispensation of the law needs to be viewed with lots of caution. If you want the law to tale its course then let us first review the historical injustices, correct them and then consider the present situation. When will we consider the unlawful of eviction of the IDPs and forget why the animosity exists! One thing that needs to be really looked at is the post re-settlement of these people. The government is again using stong-arm tactics and intimidation, deploying security forces amongst the settlements ahoping that this will usher in harmony. Where are the sociologists, psychologists and historians to advice the government on the best way to take this action? Kenyans like using force to intimidate people but these actions fail and that is why clashes continue. Address the root causes and the rest fall into place just the way we all want to see it.
The root cause of these clashes resulting to IDP’s is one and straight forward:POLITICAL INCITEMENT.Lets not pretend otherwise. However it is fuelled by JELOUSY.
Some people still imagine that one’s their tribemate is the president wata kuwa wamefika(Very backward thinking). So the clever politicians who are “tribalists No 1” exploit these.
If people don’t have a right to live and own property anywhere lets take advantage and include it in the new constitution. And kiss a country called KENYA GOODBY.
But to have other kenyans killed,raped and desfranchised is totally unacceptable.