With the swearing in of the Makau Mutua-led taskforce on victims’ compensation, the difficult task of determining the parameters of compensation, defining the victims and fixing the quantum of compensation starts. Theirs is a hard task, not made easier by an environment of skepticism on anything with a government tag.
It must have been agonising for LSK President Faith Odhiambo and human rights defenders like Amnesty International’s Irungu Houghton to reject a populist stand and join the taskforce.