More than 20 families in Athi River's Jam City Slum were forced to spend their Thursday night in cold as flood swept away their makeshift houses.
According to the area village elder, Peter Mwasia, the floods were caused by the ongoing rain in the region.
He said women and young children had to be assembled together as men kept vigil the whole night.
The elder said the slum's terrain and soil type cannot allow storm water to flow hence reason of the flooding arguing only government could intervene to save the situation.
He called on the national government through its special programme to intervene by providing the victims with food alongside other basic needs.
Mwasia said residents should be resettled by the government in a bid to improve their living standards terming the slum as filthy and unfriendly for human settlement.
He said the affected families had started erecting new makeshifts so as not to spend more nights in the cold as that would ruin victims health and that of their children.