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    "id": 1582420,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1582420/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Nanok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me take the opportunity to thank the Chairman of the Committee for the response. However, I have not received answers to the questions I raised in my request. I am seeking for concrete steps that the Government of Kenya is taking to bring on board the Shirika Plan to the hosting communities. A lot of what has been given as answers are things we have been hearing. We have engaged with the State Department, UNHCR and those partners that are enumerated in the Statement. When we met in Mombasa with the Department of Refugee Services in 2023, we dissected the six pillars of the Shirika Plan and asked the Department to re-do that plan and bring it back to us so that we could explain it to the host communities after understanding it. That was never done. That is the answer here. The meetings that were undertaken by the Department with various stakeholders were cosmetic. I can tell you for a fact. Ask any person in Kakuma, Turkana West or Turkana County, for that matter, whether they want the Shirika Plan to take off and they will tell you a definite no. It is because they have not been sensitised effectively. What has been happening, in terms of public participation, is just a matter of ticking boxes. You cannot introduce a plan like this, which is largely refugee-driven, and say that host communities will accept. We want real solutions to the challenges of hosting refugees. The host communities do not feel understood in this plan in terms of their hosting of refugees. So, this discussion needs to be re-done."
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