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    "content": "Parliament have not been implemented, then we are not going to give you that money. Why should we give it to you? We want, when June comes, a real explanation as to how you have spent the money we have already given you. This standard practice must stop! We are not interested in the audit reports of the Controller and Auditor-General that comes to Parliament, I do not know after how many years. We want to be able to say, “If you want money for the next financial year, then give us a report of what you did in the preceding financial year.” It is the law. It is not just Ekwe’s wishful thinking. It is about being accountable. It is about value for money. It is about ensuring that this country develops faster. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you and I, are members of the Amani Forum and one of the objectives of the Forum is to ensure that the issues of IDPs are sorted out this year. I really want to plead with the Treasury that everything that is required must be done. Every amount of money available must be obtained in order to settle our IDPs. The Government should not be busy creating more IDPs whether from Mau Forest or any other area. If anything, I support the environmental issues in Mau Forest. I want to invite the Government to Loima Forest in my constituency. Nobody will be removed from there. We want you to come and plant trees. Let us not act simply because it is politically significant to go to certain areas. If it is a matter of forest cover for Kenya, why can that forest cover not be obtained from Turkana? We need it badly. I want to invite whoever is in charge of the environmental and afforestation programme. My constituency is available. There is a lot of land I will give them for free and without controversy. I am hoping that in this reallocation, the Minister will deal with the aftermath of the floods, particularly in my constituency. I have raised the issue, but we seem to be a bit unfortunate. When there are no rains, we suffer famine and when there is too much rain, we suffer floods. Bridges have been washed; houses demolished; and people have been removed from their areas, including Bishops. Government Civil Servants have perished in the floods in Turkana!"
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