Uasin Gishu:Task-force to oversee implementation of KNCHR report!
Participants during a USAID Mulika Initiative held in Eldoret Wednesday.
County Advocacy, Dialogue and Mediation (ADM) in partnership with USAID Mulika Initiative and The Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) North Rift region, Wednesday formed a multisectoral team that will address key contentious issues that emerged after the August 22 general election in Uasin Gishu County.
Some of the issues identified In the post-electoral process within the county includes the closure of the Champion’s Retail Market in Eldoret town that forced hundreds of traders to relocate to Kahoya and Bahati markets that have been declared unfit by the Kenya National Commission on Human rights report for lack of key basic requirements such as lavatories and clean water.
The report further claims the county government erred in the indefinite closure of the market as traders were not accorded an ample time to relocate.
The multisectoral team will be pushing for the formation of a task force that will spearhead the implementation of the KNCHR report regarding the closure of the market, an exercise that will be conducted between May and June this year.
The multisectoral team will also push for the streamlining issues relating to labour and foreign studies that have in the recent past marred the Uasin Gishu County study abroad programs.
Hundreds of students scheduled to study and work in countries such as Finland and Canada have decried corruption and mismanagement of the programs by certain individuals within the County government
Over 8,000 candidates have also been swindled millions of shillings by a recruitment agency that is currently under probe by the Senate standing committee on labour and social protection for conning unsuspecting youth billions of shillings with the promise of securing jobs abroad .
Sheikh Mudrik Karama, Supkem chairperson Uasin Gishu County, affirms that the multisectoral team will also look into the rising cases of Alcohol and substance abuse.
“With the Support of USAID Mulika Initiative we will also be looking into the issues of Employment at the County level ,follow keenly on the rights of Vulnerable groups including women, children,elderly and people living with disability” Said Sheikh Karama
The multisectoral team will address these issues for a period of six months.
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