By MAUREEN KAKAHMore by this AuthorIntegrated Internally Displaced Persons living in Kiambu County have moved to court seeking compensation money from the disputed Sh6 billion which had been set aside by the government for resettling them. They argued that part of the money was released by the special programmes ministry and was used to acquire land for resettling IDPs but the said it was allegedly diverted. “The Kiambu integrated IDPs content that if funds set aside for resettling persons like them country wide are not immediately paid out, the continued undue delay will consequently violate their rights,” said Mr Kungu. But in the Kiambu IDPs’ case documents, they claimed that all displaced persons were registered by the said ministry under the office of the President and Kenya Red cross in 2008/2009. “Despite billions of shillings being paid out in purported resettlement and compensation of IDPs, thousands of genuine ones are still living in deplorable conditions,” said Mr Kungu.

Source: Daily Nation June 12, 2017 18:56 UTC