By Antony Gitonga
Naivasha, Kenya: Internally Displaced Persons who were resettled in Gilgil Constituency are living in fear of buffalos that have invaded their homes.
The wild animals have left 30 families at Kirathimo camp in Marula area stranded in their tents fearing attacks by the wild animals.
Most of the times the IDPs are left peeping from their tents as the wild animals graze around.
According to one of the IDPs Grace Ngugi, one man was admitted in Naivasha district after he was attacked by a buffalo.
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She said that their nights were long, fearful and marked by snorts of the buffaloes that have turned the camp to their grazing ground.
“One cannot leave the house at night due to the buffaloes that sometimes stray into our camps during day time,” she said.
Ngugi said that the land was donated to them by a church.
“Apart from buffaloes there are other wild animals that make all manner of noise and we are asking Kenya Wildlife Service to intervene,” she appealed.
A KWS officer who declined to be named admitted that the area was home to tens of wild animals mainly from the nearby Marura sanctuary and it would be hard to move them out.
