Luo victims of the 2007 PEV were poorly compensated for the atrocities committed on them in Naivasha, Nakuru, Molo, Kisumu slums and Nairobi slums.
Then there was the sporadic police violence on Luos in all cities.
But the worst forms of violence committed on the Luo were committed by Mungiki: burning under one roof several Luo households who’d sought refuge in kinship. Rapes and other sexual crimes.
Worse crimes happened in Nakuru and Naivasha.
The failure to coordinate a proper compensation plan for Luo victims of 2007 PEV despite the Luo holding substantive positions in government emanated largely on account of Luo passivity in government in the early months and years of the grand coalition regime.
The grand coalition government put to power Raila Odinga as Prime Minister; Anyang Nyong’o as Medical Services Minister, James Orengo as Lands Minister, the late Otieno Kajwang as Immigration Minister and Dalmas Otieno as Public Service Minister.
Whereas Raila Odinga is never to be blamed, the failure of Anyang’ Nyong’o, James Orengo, Otieno Kajwang and Dalmas Otieno, together with Orwa Ojode at Interior and Oburu Oginga at the Treasury, was a monumental failure of the Luo political elite to move the machine of government to respond to the economic and social displacement that the Luo community had gone through.
In the years 2008-2010, there should have been a focus to properly resettle the Luo PEV victims who had been integrated back to rural life— this same treatment was extended to camp IDPs elsewhere.
It is still hoped that the Luo IDPs of the 2007 post-poll violence will be properly compensated and the atrocities committed upon them brought before justice.
Till this moment, there has been no accountability at all for those who burnt those people inside that house in Nakuru in 2007. And worse, families of those who lost their lives have never been compensated, till this hour.
Properties owned by the Kibaki family should be attached to the Compesantion Fund for the Just Restitution for Luo victims of the 2007 PEV.
A generous donation from NCBA and Equity Bank would help in a long way…
In every struggle, it is how the victims of that struggle are treated: that demonstrates the success and, or, failure of the struggle.
