Victims of the 2007/2008 Post-Election Violence from Nyanza have a reason to smile after the National Consultative Coordination Committee (NCCC) on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) said they would be compensated by end of December 2016.
The NCCC Chief Executive Officer Patrick Njagi said they would start profiling the IDPs in September with compensation slated for December.
Compensation of IDPs from Nyanza will be funded to the tune of Sh6 billion in the 2016/2017 Financial Year.
There are about 39,000 IDPs from Nyanza NCCC said.
"We already have funds but we cannot start the compensation process when it is not clear who the genuine IDPs are and where they are from," Mr Njagi said.
Reacting to claims by the IDPs that they had been neglected, Njagi said the government is committed to sorting out the issue of IDPs and that they would not be marginalised just because they were not in camps.
The resettlement move comes at a time when the 2007/2008 Post-Election Violence victims from Nyanza threatened to boycott the 2017 elections if the government does not compensate them.
Nyanza Region IDPs Network Coordinator Nelson Owegi said they had lost hope as the government aid had taken too long to come.
He said compensation was supposed to come immediately after the closure of the IDP camps in the country.