DAILY NATION Wednesday November 26, 2008

POST"ELECTION VIOLENCE

Heart-wrenching stories narrated at mock tribunal

Women tell horror tales of how men in uniform violated them in their homes

By BORNICE BIOMNDO

one after the other, the women sat in front of an audience and cameras and told of their ordeal. Each story was as heart-wrench­ing as the last. The women told terrify­ing tales of how men in uniform broke into their homes, beat them and violated them.

Sunday December 7, 2008 The Standard

Wanjiru opposes PM over evictions of slum residents

Government plans to spend Sh15 billion on cleaning three city rivers choking with effluent

By BEAUTTAH OMANGA

Housing Assistant Minister Marga­retWanjiru has asked the Government not to evict people living on riverbanks in the City.

"It was painful! The scenario was painful! As a family we did not anticipate that there could be vio­lence after the elections. It caught us unawares. It spread so fast. It was painful"That was the description the Prime Minister's wife, Ida Odinga, gave when asked about how the family handled post election violence.

"We did not know how to stop it im­mediately. We thought that by talking to people we could save the situation, but,it kept escalating",Ida says.

She says the violence was so sudden that one minute they could hear Eldoret, was up in flames, and while pondering who to reach, news would come in that Kericho was burning and before they could even respond, in comes another call from Migori.