The state yesterday released Sh1 billion to conclude the resettlement of all the remaining internally displaced persons in the country.
Deputy President William Ruto said the money would be wired to the IDPs’ accounts from yesterday.
He spoke at his Karen residence.
Ruto said the 5,261 families are among the victims of the 2007-08 post-election violence and Mau Forest evictions.
“From tomorrow, this money will be available in the IDPs’ bank accounts and we expect that by Monday no one will be remaining in the camps and they will all be closed,” he said.
The DP instructed Devolution CS Mwangi Kiunjuri to find mechanisms for arbitration on four farms that have been purchased for a resettlement programme.
“I am asking the Attorney General to expedite the cases involving the 4,000-acre farms, including hiring private lawyers,” he said.
Ruto said the government has compensated 28,924 IDP families since the PEV, with 20,170 being resettled.
The state has spent Sh17.5 billion to settle them, he said.
Ruto asked county commissioners in Trans Nzoia, Turkana, Isiolo and Nyandarua, where most of the remaining IDP camps are, to facilitate removal of the camps from the roadsides from Monday.
IDP national chairman Patrick Githinji said nobody should claim to be an IDP after this final resettlement programme.