Residents living along the railway lines in Kibera and Mukuru slums will now be relocated farther from transport lines with the hope of being compensated.
This emerged after the treasure allocated Sh1.5 billion towards the relocation project.
It is barely two months that the Kenya Railways Corporation wrote to the county government of Nairobi expressing their concern due to the rate at which slum residents were encroaching and erecting shanties along the railway lines.
The Kenya Railway managing director, Atanas Maina had hinted on possible demolitions if the residents failed to heed the one month notice issued for relocation to other areas further from the lines. However, the monetary allocation is speculated to be used by the government to further fund the famous slum housing project that has already been commissioned by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
So far, quite a number of slum dwellers have already relocated to more decent housing that the Jubilee government erected in a bid to decongest the slum population in line with its manifesto of better housing.