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    "content": "– resettled our Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and even those who were removed from forests many years ago, are still not secure, why do Members of Parliament from this region have an issue with relocation? It is because we have not shown properly, as a country, that we can move people out of an area and relocate them. It has not been proved by this Government. Why do we not ensure that a community that depends on water for their livestock, because they are pastoralists, do not have serious questions that they need answered? If we cannot see that, as leaders, and continue to bicker about what happened in the last regime--- Most of us here, including people in Government, from the President to the Prime Minister were part of those regimes but we are now standing here and blaming. However, today, the ball is in our hands. This issue is here and it is critical. As the Chair of the African Parliamentarians Network on Climate Change, we will be addressing on behalf of Africa, in Geneva, the Global Fund for Disaster Risk Reduction. Instead of finding out how we can get money to ensure that we take care of this issue with the right resources, we are here bickering about what we know we will never solve, because I will always protect my people. Today, if you told me that you are going to move people from the slums of Nairobi, I will not agree, simply because you are not showing me where you will take them. We have done slum upgrading but people have never moved into those houses. You would remove people from the slums but they will not move into the houses. This is the same situation. However, we cannot ignore the fact that we are going through a climatic change crisis and that there is no water. This is not only affecting our country but also another country. I have no interest in the Members of Parliament, because they are representing their people and will continue to do so. So, I am asking the Government because I have no interest in the hon. Members because they are representing their people and they will continue to do so. You may call them whatever name but they are protecting their people. When you are protecting your people, you are always given a name; a warlord a cattle rustler or land grabber. But at the end of the day, it is not the hon. Members but the Government. There is the Ministry of Wildlife and Forestry, Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. If they do not answer these questions, then they have no moral authority to continue being in those offices until they give us an answer that satisfies Kenyans and saves the lives of many Kenyans who are dying because of various reasons. We cannot continue to politicise this issue."
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