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    "id": 191088,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/191088/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M.M. Ali",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 74,
        "legal_name": "Ali Mohamud Mohamed",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I apologise to the House for coming late. It was actually not of my making. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Minister is aware of one IDP camp situated at Kanam Kamele with approximately 1,800 persons. In Turkana South, there are a number of IDP camps with approximately 977 households. All persons access basic services, including health services, at Lodwar, Lokichar Health Centre, Kainuk and Lokoli dispensaries. As far as starvation is concerned, we are not aware of anybody going without food. In May alone, we have distributed 9,000 bags of maize of 90 kilogrammes each and 550 bags of beans to Turkana North. We have also distributed an equal number of bags to Turkana Central and Turkana South. We have also distributed 6 by 3-litre cartons of vegetable oils, 250 each to Turkana North, South and Central. (b) As far as education of the IDPs' children is concerned, there are no children across the country who are not able to access education. All secondary schools have been instructed to admit all the internally displaced children. In places where children are overcrowded like in Naivasha and Nakuru, we have put up centres for learning to accommodate such over-populated cases. (c) The Government will continue with its efforts to continually feed all IDPs across the country. Indeed, in areas where food is needed, we shall step up our efforts to ensure that our people are fed and nobody goes hungry in the country. (d) The Government will resettle all IDPs to their original homes, whether integrated or living in camps. The profiling exercise which is on going will also assist in addressing the specific needs of all the IDPs in order to address their immediate, medium and long-term needs, so that everybody is resettled back in their homes."
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