A 5 year old boy was seriously injured over the weekend when police allegedly attempted to forcefully evict more than 100 IDP5 families camping at Kiratina satellite camp in Nakuru's Free-area.

According to the chairman of the camp Peter Njenga, the boy sustained leg injuries after he was hit by a tear-gas canister that was lobbed at the IDPs by the police during the botched eviction exercise.

More than 50 men, women and children from the camp demonstrated along the streets of Nakuru town demanding that they be paid the support fund promised to them by the government, before they could leave.

The irate crowd claimed that the government had neglected them leaving them without basic necessities including food, shelter, security and sanitary facilities while families have been sleeping in the cold save for the elderly and children who were using 2 tents that were donated to them by a well-wisher.

The lDPs walked for 7 kilometers to seek audience with the area DC and vowed to resist any attempt to evict them from the camp until their demands were met.

Nakuru DC Titus Mirii provided them with transportation back to the camp with a promise that he would visit the camp to assess the situation before deciding the way forward.

Meanwhile the proprietor of a private school in Nakuru that admitted 250 internally displaced children during the post-election violence is in a dilemma over what to do with the children who cannot pay school fees as their parents are still living in camps.

Samuel Njiraini, the proprietor of Navigators Girls Secondary School said he heeded a government call that schools around Nakuru admit children whose parents had fled Kipkellion, Uasin Gishu, and the larger Nandi Districts and who were still flowing into the Nakuru Showground camp in January.

Njiraini now claims his efforts to have the government pay for the girls' school fees were being frustrated by the Nakuru North District Education Officer, Moses Karate, who has told the girls to go back to their former schools.

Mr Njiraini who was addressing the press during a parents' day at the school said he wanted the students to pay a Ksh 20 fee per day for meals and Ksh 500 per term for medical services but even that amount was too high for their parents who were still living in camps.

He also said Education Permanent Secretary, Karega Mutahi, last term granted the school half a million shillings but the DEO has recommended the cessation of such grants saying the school was private and should not involve the government in its programs.

Karate admitted making the recommendations saying private schools, by policy, should be left alone to run their affairs privately.