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    "speaker_name": "September 30, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 18 Sen. Mositet",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know the year which we may trace the word “IDPs” to because I believe the Maasais were displaced around 1895. However, what we are talking about is very crucial. I would like to talk of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from 1993 and in 1997; definitely quite a number of people lost their property and their loved ones. Then of course, we have the post-election violence which happened in 2008. As I was listening to the Chairperson reading the answers to the question, I was a bit disturbed. I wondered who decided to sit down and classify the IDPs such that some IDPs would be given Kshs10,000, others given land and others given Kshs400,000 and a big ceremony is held. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we want to heal this country, such an issue should not just be taken as something to make some people politically happy. We must look and think about the dignity of those Kenyans. I will go with what Sen. Wetangula and his younger brother, the Senator for Vihiga said, but all in all, we need an audit to know exactly how it was established that other people could be paid Kshs10,000, others Kshs400, 000 and others given pieces of land? Who are these people selling land? Who are the brokers? We need an audit; as Sen. Munyes said, the whole thing was a cash cow for some people. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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