News: Kibaki directs closure of camps

Kenya President Kibaki has directed the resettlement of all internal refugees in two weeks.
This was taken from The Daily Nation newspaper:

The President ordered the ministries of Finance, Special Programmes, Lands, Internal Security and Agriculture to move with speed in ensuring that land is made available for the resettlement exercise.
“We should move with speed to resettle the IDPs who are still in camps. This matter has dragged on for too long. We must deal with it and ensure that we do not have persons still living in camps,” he said.
“We also need to help those who are going back to their land to resettle and undertake their farming. I also appeal to all communities to live peacefully and co-exist harmoniously.”
President Kibaki was speaking Friday at his Harambee House office where he chaired a meeting of the committee overseeing resettlement of IDPs.
During the meeting, it was resolved that all IDP camps should be closed down within two weeks once the IDPs are resettled on the land purchased by the government.

Read full article:http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/663294/-/unedqy/-/index.html

Irene is meeting with the Committee at Pipeline this week to discuss how these recent turn of events will potentially affect the families at Pipeline IDP Camp. I will be posting an update as soon as I have one. Stay tuned...

Lauren xo