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"content": "households have been paid the start-up capital, while the balance of 75,118 houses is yet to be paid. Regarding the fate of five acres piece of land in Trans-Nzoia owned by Mr. Mwilitsa, who was displaced and then compensated, in the current state of things, the land still belongs to Mr. Mwilitsa even if he was compensated. The Government has not yet devised a framework to deal with such matters. In most cases, no IDP declares their property, including when seeking resettlement. Possibly, a law should be put in place to reposes the land and hand it over to the Government. On whether there have been new IDPs after the 2007/2008 post election violence and how much money has been paid to which IDPs, since 2007/2008 post election violence, a number of requests to resettle IDPs have been received and included in the resettlement programme. This includes mainly forest evictees from Mau, Kieni, Teldet. Marakwet, Kipkurere and Nandi. In addition, requests for resettlement have been received from Tana Delta, Baringo, Marsabit, Moyale, Mpeketoni and other areas, following recent internal conflicts. However, most of latter cases were later resolved and those affected returned to their original homes. The Ministry has offered various forms of assistance to those affected in form of food and non-food items. On the definition of IDPs, The Prevention, Protection and Assistance of IDPs and Affected Communities Act, 2012 defines “IDP” as a person or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of, or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, large-scale development projects, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, natural or human-made disasters and who have not crossed an internationally recognized state border. The other issue was when the case of historical IDPs will be considered. The problem of internal displacement in Kenya is complex and precedes the colonial era. Until 2012, there was no legal framework to address internal displacement issues. Issues relating to internal displacement were often handled in the context of humanitarian assistance. In light of the foregoing, a comprehensive data and information for displacement that occurred prior to 2007/2008 post election violence is very scanty. However, several petitions have been launched by groups that were affected prior to post election violence, 2007/2008. The Government realised that some of the cases of historical IDPs are so old and lacking in documentation that tracing their details will be extremely difficult and would open up the process for abuse. In addition, the cases are many and varied in nature and it would not be viable to pursue them leave alone to compensate the victims. However, there are some genuine historical cases that need to be considered. This include victims of the 1992 and 1997 elections-related violence, specifically in Molo and the Enoosupukia victims and colonial village evictees of 1988 and 1998 who have been engaged in the shamba farming system since the colonial days. Some of these records are held in the county commissioners’ offices. In addition, many of the cases brought to our attention relate to civil eviction of squatters. Some are out of land transactions gone bad, which should ideally be handled by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, under the Settlement Fund Trustee or through civil litigation. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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