{"id":4595,"date":"2023-01-09T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/act.or.ke\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2023-01-09T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:42:22","slug":"bringing-peace-to-notorious-nakuru-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/act.or.ke\/website_3763efab\/bringing-peace-to-notorious-nakuru-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing peace to notorious Nakuru border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ropuv9mr6Kg<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-repeated\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2232 is-repeated\" style=\"background-position: 50% 60%; background-image: url('https:\/\/act.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mary-Wanjiru-in-her-farm-in-Lusiru-Njoro-Nakuru-County.-Photo-Act-scaled.jpg');\" role=\"img\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-heading\" style=\"color: #ffd800;\"><strong>Poll violence victims now frontliners finding lasting peace in Lusiru<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-01-09T14:42:22+00:00\">January 9, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The 1992 widespread ethnic clashes in Rift Valley left a trail of terror that was felt even in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">At the heart of these attacks were communities perceived to be at loggerheads because of their political differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Such clashes erupted in every general election in Kenya except for 2002. Two ethnic groups\u2014Kikuyu and Kalenjin\u2014were the conspicuous adversaries in all Rift Valley fights save for the 2013 and 2017 polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">However, ahead of the 2022 election, there were tell-tale signals of repeated aggression between Kikuyu and Kalenjin in parts of Rift Valley\u2014especially in the Lusiru area in Njoro, Nakuru county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Lusiru is the borderline between Kikuyu and Kalenjin communities living in the Njoro constituency. It has been the ground zero of all electoral violence among the two tribes in Nakuru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Mary Wanjiru has lived in Lusiru for 52 years. She lost her husband and son because of the ethnic clashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u201cAfter every five years, we were worried. After every five years, we relocated. And after moving out, our homes and properties were torched,\u201d Wanjiru, an ethnic Kikuyu who hails from Kirinyaga county, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Joseph Lang\u2019at, a Kalenjin elder who has lived in Lusiru since 1993, described previous electoral violence as \u201cextremely shocking\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u201cPoliticians incited violence. People lost their lives because of politics. It was bad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In 2022, the situation threatened to be a powder keg when former President Uhuru Kenyatta, a Kikuyu, failed to back his then-deputy William Ruto, a Kalenjin, for the State House job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-large-font-size\" style=\"color: #ffd800; font-style: italic; font-weight: 300;\">&#8220;We had started seeing signs that communicated if no action is taken, then we\u2019ll get back to a situation similar to that of 2007.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Calvin Muga, Midrift Hurinet&#8217;s program officer.<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2275 has-parallax\" style=\"background-position: 50% 50%; background-image: url('https:\/\/act.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/md1-scaled.jpg');\" role=\"img\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Preventing Lusiru from exploding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Midrift Hurinet is a Nakuru-based organization that works on peace and security in Kenya. Its program officer, Calvin Muga, said there was a feeling of betrayal among Ruto\u2019s ethnic group and supporters after Uhuru supported erstwhile rival Raila Odinga, a Luo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u201cWe had started seeing signs that communicated if no action is taken, then we\u2019ll get back to a situation similar to that of 2007,\u201d Muga said. In 2007, a disputed poll plunged Kenya into bloodshed, with massive displacement of people witnessed in Lusiru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The tension, coupled with incitement by politicians, deepened Midrift Hurinet\u2019s commitment to a peaceful Lusiru. The organization deliberately targeted Lusiru with sustained peace meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The initial gathering in early June 2022 broke the ice, Muga said, providing a safe space for the warring communities to dialogue about electoral-related conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Subsequent meetings were done to prevent Lusiru from exploding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-large-font-size\" style=\"color: #ffd800; font-style: italic; font-weight: 300;\">&#8220;We kept telling them that no one will be chased away because of politics\u2014and that we will all live here after the elections because we are one community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Joseph Lang&#8217;at, Kalenjin elder.<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2286\" style=\"object-position: 95% 39%;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/act.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Joseph-Langat-showing-the-Lusiru-border.-Photo-Act-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"95% 39%\" \/>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Tension eases off<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Wanjiru and Lang\u2019at featured prominently in these discussions. They rallied their communities to participate\u2014and they did, in their numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/midrifthurinet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/midrifthurinet.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Midrift Hurinet\u2019s<\/span><\/a> interventions were courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/kenya\/fact-sheet\/kenya-electoral-conflicts-mitigation-civic-voter-education-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/kenya\/fact-sheet\/kenya-electoral-conflicts-mitigation-civic-voter-education-support\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kenya Electoral Conflicts Mitigation and Civic Education Support (ECCES) program<\/span><\/a>, which USAID funds through Act! and <a href=\"https:\/\/uraia.or.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/uraia.or.ke\/\">Uraia Trust<\/a>. One of its objectives is to mitigate electoral violence and improve response to any fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Muga said the discussions emboldened the two tribes. They would occasionally hold news conferences to condemn hateful remarks by politicians. Resultantly, the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) in Nakuru intervened by summoning a politician who was notorious for inciting his community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Wanjiru, Lang\u2019at, and others, because of the USAID-supported intervention, formed a 105-member committee of peace ambassadors, with almost equal participation from the Kikuyu and Kalenjin sides. The peace envoys camped in Lusiru, holding a series of meetings urging peaceful coexistence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Tension started easing off, Wanjiru said, and the committee continued to convince their communities not to move out. Many heeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Lang\u2019at said: \u201cWe kept telling them that no one will be chased away because of politics\u2014and that we will all live here after the elections because we are one community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">By the time the ballot was cast on August 9, 2022, there was no mass movement of residents out of Lusiru like before\u2014and most voted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u201cThe election went on well. We voted peacefully and went home to wait for the results,\u201d Lang\u2019at said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Wanjiru added: \u201cThis was the most peaceful election I have witnessed in Lusiru.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-large-font-size\" style=\"color: #ffd800; font-style: italic; font-weight: 300;\">Between April and September 2022, ECCES\u2019 peace messages impacted 215, 222 people directly\u2014and another 15 million indirectly\u2014as 41 peace accords got signed by the warring communities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2293 has-parallax\" style=\"background-position: 89% 62%; background-image: url('https:\/\/act.or.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_0225-scaled.jpg');\" role=\"img\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\">Peaceful vote in history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Several counties were listed as electoral violence hotspots before the vote. Police were deployed to quell possible attacks, and organizations like Midrift Hurinet, with support from programs such as ECCES, held community talks to avert chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Between April and September 2022, ECCES\u2019 peace messages impacted 215, 222 people directly\u2014and another 15 million indirectly\u2014as 41 peace accords got signed by the warring communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Resultantly, in August 2022, Kenya held the most peaceful election in its history, despite predictions of political unrest. Past electoral-related ethnic skirmishes claimed hundreds of souls and destroyed properties worth millions of shillings. Not the 2022 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Ernest Cornel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\"><strong>ALSO, WATCH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/6jQIyctct6Q<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding lasting peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,68,1],"tags":[69,71,73],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news","category-success-story","category-uncategorized","tag-conflict","tag-general-election","tag-mitigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bringing peace to notorious Nakuru border - ACT! 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