The government has been urged to resettle the more than 600,000 displaced people before the 2017 general elections.
The National Displaced Persons Network (DPN) said the homeless people comprise the 2007/08-post election violence, forest evictees and hundreds of people displaced by fighting in Baringo County.
Speaking in Nakuru after a meeting on resettlement of displaced victims, the network chairman, Patrick Githinji said it was unfortunate that there were people living in tents for more than five years yet successive government had been promising to resettle them.
"The government resettled the bulk of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were living in camps and a small group of forest evictees leaving the rest to live in deplorable conditions under tents and makeshift structures at the camps," said Githinji.
Githinji further said there were 44 IDP camps remaining in different parts of the country, most of them being in Rift Valley region.
“The previous government had promised to close the camps and we managed to resettle most of the people through Operation Rudi Nyumbani. President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government promised to clear the issue in 100 days but hundreds are yet to be resettled,” added Githinji.
Githinji noted that none of the integrated IDPs had been resettled and they are living on handouts from well-wishers and relatives.
He said the forest evictees were still living in roadside camps in Molo, Bomet, Nandi and Trans Mara yet the government has set aside funds to resettle them.
Githinji said the IDP Act of 2012 would help identify the genuine displaced people and prosecute the masqueraders.
"The new law will also deal with genuine IDPs who have been resettled yet they are presenting themselves to be considered homeless," added the chairman.
He also urged leaders to disengage the resettlement from politics and tribalism.