It is very intriguing to hear a Kenyan raising objections to the resettling of the displaced people. It is inhuman, selfish and immoral. When one reads or sees the deplorable state the displaced persons are living in, a human being must be touched. You can imagine the trauma that may now disturb some people for the rest of their lives. Why can’t you be touched? If you are so materially inclined, so you are comfortable and you don’t care about anyone else; when you believe that their resettlement might deny you votes in future elections, because you were voted in because of making a solemn promise that these foreigners must go and now they are back and If you believed that you have to be made minister in the Kenya government and now you are not. I have said before, and I am saying it again here that unless you repent, and part of the repentance is an unconditional acceptance that you used the wrong premises of getting votes, you will never have peace. The statement made by one leader, Henry Kosgey recently, "A lot of water has gone under the bridge. We need to tell the truth and see justice done. We shall not forget, but we can forgive". One wonders what he is forgiving, if he is not talking of resettling and apologizing to the victims he and his colleagues caused to be displaced. Who beat them up, who displaced them, who killed people in a church and other places, and what was the reason for this? This appears to be accepting the resettlement of the victims grudgingly. This is not sufficient healing and looks like any time such a person would sponsor and support the same evictions and killings. For proper healing to take place, those who evicted and supported the same must ungrudgingly and unconditionally accept this was wrong and now they are accepting that these people be resettled. There can be no conditions or negotiations to go back to a piece of land or property you had legally owned and were displaced after the results of the elections were announced. If rigging of elections was the reason for killing and evicting people, then you must know that it was not only a primitive method but also wrong and so disgraceful, but one word especially describes it best, 'displeasing to God'and so "sinful" because of directing brutality to the wrong people. That is why there must be repentance for total healing and hence peace. Those grandstanding because they were not made ministers are wasting their time and calling for more of God’s wrath on them, irrespective of the wealth they have acquired. Let them know that the money they have, most of which, obviously illegally gotten, will not give them peace. Check carefully and you will see most are nursing blood pressure, diabetes and others. Money or even political positions will not help. John 4:13-14 says “Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” No mater what position or wealth you have, will never on its own give you peace and satisfaction. One late senior officer of the Moi government is said to have made the following remark one time when he was being helped by a young man onto an airline seat to go for treatment abroad, "young man, I wish you have my money, and I have your health". The displaced people must be resettled unconditionally and more repentance done or you will all repeat what this late senior government officer had to say.

If wishes were horses, the writer of this article would be a rich man.

[Or maybe, let us say a "richer man" - since foreign media bosses have a way of rewarding those (local boys) who toe the line and punishing those who do not. Journalists know it as "self-censorship"]]

Chokora, I don’t know if you are Mr or Mrs or even Miss, but I have the following comments to make on your very brief response to the previous article on settling the displaced Kenyans... By the standards of this world, I wouldn’t count myself anywhere near rich, but I would not complain because I am not wanting in things I need. I wouldn’t mind having more, but I would not ‘kill’ to get, like those people who killed or ordered, or sponsored for others to be killed because of having purportedly been cheated in the last Kenya Presidential elections. So, they ordered their supporters to go on the rampage killing and dispossessing poor or innocent people. They were revenging for the loss in the elections. The word of God says in Romans 12:17-19 “Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, by friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for its written: ‘it is mine to avenge; I will repay, says the Lord”’. So Chokora, God has provided for me and will continue to do so because it is his promise: Psalm 145: 17-20 “The Lord is righteous in all his ways and loving towards all he has made. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfils the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. The Lord watches over all who love him, but the wicked he will destroy.”