ODM leader Raila Odinga has said that they will not rest until the government implements the recommendations of the TJRC report.
He said that the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission's findings will be the solution to historical injustices bedeviling Kenyans.
Raila said during his concluded tour of Kwale and Taita Taveta counties that they will not accept any attempts by the Uhuru Kenyatta administration to gloss over the report.
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He cited continued land dispossession, economic marginalisation, massacres and extrajudicial executions as some of the issues in the country that the report is best suited to deal with.
Raila said Jubilee has no excuse of failing to implement the report, adding that ignorance of the same means they are not keen on ensuring the country moves forward.
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The ODM boss, who was joined by deputy party leader Hassan Joho and Kilifi Governor Amason Kingi among others, said that the report recommended cures for the abuses.
"The report outlines that the 'willing-buyer, willing-seller’ land tenure approach was grossly abused and is one of the major causes of disinheritance and landlessness, especially in the Coast," Raila said.
Addressing a political rally at Baraza Park in Kwale, the former PM said that landlessness was found to be a major indicator of marginalisation in the Coast, including Kwale.
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Raila further asked the National Land Commission to adjudicate and register lands at the coast as well in all other areas where the same has not been conducted.
"The report recommended that NLC in furtherance of its mandate expedites the process of addressing or recovering all irregularly and illegally acquired land," he said.
Raila said the TJRC report is very clear on formulations of guidelines of maximum acreage individuals or company can buy in respect of private land.
The ODM leader said that Coast was marginalised through dispossession due to the confluence of interests arising from the region’s strategic value as a principal gateway to the East and Central Africa.
"The commission identified a number of regions as economically marginalised in the post-independence era," he said.
Raila named the North Eastern, Nyanza, North Rift, Coast and Western regions as some that still suffer neglect by the government, adding that this will be dealt with if Cord is elected to form the next government.
"Why has the government failed to implement recommendations that victims of the massacres be provided with reparations, both individual and collective, within 36 months of the issuance of the report?" he asked.
"These were to be done within 24 months of release of the report. Four years later, the government is yet to table this report for debate. I am challenging Jubilee to tell Kenyans why it is sitting on this report. Kenyans want to close this dark chapter in their history and move on to other things," Raila said.
Joho urged residents of the Coast region to be firm and remain focused in ODM even after most of the political leaders in the region defected to Jubilee party.
"We are aware that these cheap leaders who defected to Jubilee party were all given brown envelopes that is why they decided to betray the party," Joho said.
"If Jubilee party has brown envelops then I have principles and anyone who has principles is priceless," Kingi said.
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