Kiandutu Integrated IDPs have called on the government to fast-track their compensation and resettlement saying that many of them continue to die.
Speaking on Monday at Kiandutu cemetery during the burial of one of the IDPs (Mburu Gacheru), their Chairman John Njuguna said that many have suffered depression and continue to die as a result.
"Mburu here died as a result of acute depression. A month ago, he was served with an eviction notice as he had been unable to pay rent for a long time. Since then he went into depression and here we are today burying him. Many more of our own have suffered the same fate and are buried in this cemetery," said Njuguna.
Njuguna added that the 9 years that they have lived as integrated IDPs in the slum has not been easy.
"The government only helped us up to 2011 but since then we have been on our own. The government has only been concentrating on those who were in the camps and seems to have forgotten us," he said.
He also counted out the possibility of them returning to their homes saying that that would ignite fresh violence.
"Right now, I am very sure that my neighbour, who is a native in the area we were evicted from is tilling my land. If I went there today and demanded that he leaves my land for me, we would get into a prolonged dispute and eventually chaos," Njuguna said.
The more than 400 integrated IDPs have been living in makeshift structures in Kiandutu slums under deplorable conditions.