The government has proposed Sh 6 Billion to resettle Internally Displaced Persons across the country.
In the 2016/2017 budget proposals ready in Parliament by National Treasury Cabinet Secretary (CS) Henry Rotich on Wednesday, the funds will be used to settle all internally displaced persons who are still living in camps.
While reading the estimates, Rotich said that the funds will be used to settle persons displaced as a result of political violence, evictions and as a result of environment effects.
The CS said that already other programmes of settlement of displaced persons is underway.
“We intend to ensure that all displaced persons still living in camps are settled immediately,” he said.
The Jubilee government had promised to settle all IDPs in its 100 days in office.
Though the re-settlement process has been on over the years, there are claims that some people are still in camps.
Speaking at Afraha Stadium during a prayer rally early last month, President Uhuru Kenyatta had said that his government will resettle all IDPs before the next general elections.
The President said that all IDPs whether as a result of political violence or evictions will be re-settled.
A section of opposition leaders has been accusing the Jubilee government of being selective in re-settlement of IDPs.
Last month Kisumu senator Anyang’ Nyong’o claimed that the government had not resettled IDPs in Nyanza region despite some of them being displaced during the 2007/2008 post-poll skirmishes.