People pretending to be victims of the 2007/08 post-election violence risk a jail term of 10 years or a Sh5 million fine or both, national IDP chairman Peter Kariuki has said. Kariuki has warned the IDPs who are fake to have their names deregistered as they were in the process of analysing the genuinely of the list. “We are aware that there are some fake IDPs and we are visiting the camps as we know the genuine ones. We are appealing to the ones who know were not affected to approach their own chairman and seek to have them removed,” he said. Kariuki appealed to the other IDPs to help in the identification process, stating that they knew each other as they had lived together for more than six years. The chairman was speaking in Molo where he promised the IDPs of the government's plan to resettle them soon. “We have already been approached by the government officials who have promised that they will have us resettled by the end of the year. We have hopes that the remaining families will be comfortable and we have started looking for fertile and arable land where they can relocate to,” he added.

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