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Raila has no moral right to advice government on IDPs

“In all honesty concerning 2007/2008 post-election violence victims: The grand coalition government did very poorly in attempting to compensate and resettle them” A friend of mine recently wrote. He makes an important point given all the noise about Internally Displaced Persons that have lately hammered our ears.

According to reports, between 28th December 2007 and the end of February 2008 some 1500 Kenyans were killed and more than 500,000 evicted from their homes after a disputed presidential election. That’s massive!

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