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    "content": "(v) Through cash payment programme, 934 IDP households and 7,139 forest evictee households were paid Kshs400,000 in lieu of land resettlement. (vi) 165,846 integrated IDP households were to be paid start-up capital of Kshs10,000 each. To date, 75,293 IDPs are yet to be paid. All the rest have received the start-up capital. (vii) Out of the 640 Kenyan IDP households in Uganda (refugees), 397 were persuaded to return home. Each of the returning household was paid Kshs37,000 (Kshs25,000 for burnt up houses and Kshs12,000 for transport). The remaining 246 households were brought back in April 2015 and each was assisted with Kshs100,000 for households of up to three persons and Kshs150,000 for households of more than three persons. (e) The Government also provided other humanitarian assistance that included food, tents, construction of hospitals, dams, roads and psychosocial counseling, et cetera. (f) Information regarding where IDPs were before they were displaced, where they moved to and the various interventions done is contained in annex 1 and in responses of (a) and (d) above. The Ministry has not yet undertaken a study to conclusively determine the current situation of the IDPs. We also do not know exactly who among the IDPs are genuinely in tented camps as proper profiling has not been done. I am, however, aware the National Consultative Coordination Committee is in the process of profiling them to determine their numbers. I am also aware that there are many masqueraders claiming to be IDPs and agitating for assistance, worsening the perception on IDPs resettlement programmes. (g) The Government is profiling those IDPs who were not profiled in the last profiling exercise, especially the so-called integrated IDPs. The National Consultative Coordination Committee has undertaken to re-profile all IDPs to determine who among the genuine ones are yet to be resettled and the status of those considered resettled. However, there is fear that some people are taking advantage of the situation to claim IDP status for purposes of benefiting from resettlement programmes. This is especially the case with those claiming to have been missed in the initial profiling as the process of establishing their status this late in the resettlement process is very complicated. There is also fear of the ever expanding demands of the IDPs, whose solutions are not economically feasible and needs to be carefully controlled. IDPs have developed a culture of changing their demands immediately one is met. Some of those who were assisted to return to their farms during “ Rudi Nyumbani operation” are now demanding the same treatment as those who have not been settled. Those paid Kshs400,000 are now demanding Ksh1 million, those settled on farms are in addition demanding cash payment and the integrated IDPs want both land resettlement and cash payment. In the current Financial Year (2015/2016), the programme has been allocated an amount of Kshs2.205 billion which will be utilized to profile and settle those who have not been assisted in the past. In conclusion, I wish to request all leaders to assist the Government to conclude this programme by calling upon all those affected to forget the past and engage themselves in nation building like other members of the society. It should also be The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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