Over 3,000 victims of the 2007-08 post-election violence want the state to gazette February 28 as IDPs day.
The Internally Displaced Persons from 33 counties also want the government to build a memorial site for future generations to know what happened.
They spoke on Monday at the Nakuru ASK Ground, where they gathered to commemorate the National Peace and Reconciliation Accord.
The accord, which was signed between Raila Odinga and former President Mwai Kibaki on February 28, 2018, ended the prolonged post-election.
More than 1,500 people were killed, properties worth millions destroyed and over 400,000 people displaced.
The victims held prayers and petitioned the government to compensate those who missed out on the previous reparations.
IDPs national chairman Patrick Githinji urged politicians to desist from hatred politics.
Githinji asked the relevant authorities to be alert and arrest anyone who causes incitement and hate speech.
“We have gathered to commemorate IDPs day, the day the late Koffi Annan brokered a deal between ex-President Kibaki and Odinga. The national accord signed had two agendas touching on IDPs
“The agenda said IDPs were to be compensated or facilitated to go back to their former homes. This has not fully happened, we ask the state to solve the issue once,”
He decried the repealing of the IDPs Act, saying the government has a sinister motive that the group will resist.
One of the victims, Joyce Kepkemoi from Londiani, was pregnant at that time.
“I was a farmer when things turned upside down. That night, 14 young men came to our house and they told me to say my final prayers, I was eight months pregnant but they started stabbing me,” Kepkemoi said.
“They killed my husband and burned my face until I passed out. I woke up in the mortuary on day three and was taken to the hospital and gave birth to a boy.”
Kepkemoi urged the government to help her get a house and prevent violence from ever occurring in the country.
Edited by Kiilu Damaris
