Some 10,000 Kenyans displaced in electoral violence earlier this year have been given until Friday morning to leave the camp where they are living.
A BBC reporter in Eldoret in the Rift Valley says riot police have been deployed to the camp in a showground.
In May, the unity government started to resettled the displaced, but many say they are too scared to return home.
Eldoret's district commissioner told the BBC many of them were opportunists, waiting for handouts and must leave.
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"The moment we gave that money, which we did about two weeks [ago], we had a very clear understanding that they ought upon receiving that amount to move out of the showground," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
But the BBC's Wanyama wa Chebusiri in Eldoret says many of those at the camp say they have not received the money and have nowhere to go.
"I am confident that they will leave," Mr Ngaluma.
"I have no doubt in my mind that we shall be able to close the showground without having to use excessive force."
Eldoret is in the Rift Valley, which was the area hardest hit by the clashes following disputed presidential polls in December 2007.
About 1,500 people died in the violence and 600,000 were displaced.
(BBC)
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