NAIROBI - The Minister for Special Programmes Naomi Shabaan has denied claims that more people were returning to IDP camps in fear of violence during and after referendum.
The minister says so far only 32,000 displaced persons are still in the camps adding that the government was still putting in place measures to ensure they are resettled.
Shabaan however admitted that the resettling on IDPs has been slow but assures those still in the camps that the process was hastened.
She was speaking to the press after meeting a Vietnamese delegation that is visiting the country to study the ways Kenya is dealing with HIV/AIDS issues.
Meanwhile, internal security PS Francis Kimemia has expressed the government's commitment to resettle remaining internally displaced persons by October this year.
Speaking in Milangine district, Kimemia said security would also be enforced inviolence hotspots across the country during the referendum.
Three years after the post election violence that left more than three hundred thousand people displaced, a section of those who were affected are yet to be resettled.
According to internal security PS Francis Kimemia, the government is working on a plan that will ensure that all IDPs who have not been resettled receive their compensation within the next three months.
But even as the government issues the assurance, there have been reports of people moving back to IDP camps in fear of the implications of the referendum vote.
Kimemia however says security will be beefed up in all violence hotspots.
Elsewhere, the Association of the professionals' societies in East Africa -EPSEA- is calling on the government to guarantee security in the hot spot regions during and after referendum.
The Association says that there referendum should not divide the country in to two and called Kenyans to respect everyone's decision on the proposed constitution.
Speaking at the professionals' forum on the proposed constitution in Nairobi the Associations chair Daniel Ichangi accused the church leaders for taking position on the draft constitution instead of being neutral.
He said that the church has failed in advocating national unity.
Ichangi called on Kenyans to support the new constitution as it really addresses the bill of rights better than the current constitution.
Source: KBC
