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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyambati",
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        "legal_name": "Walter Enock Osebe Nyambati",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must do what we must do to ensure that our people live like the rest of Kenyans. I want to see a day when I will go to Wajir as a Kenyan without being told that I do not belong there. Any Kenyan has a right to live where he or she must live. I do not want to be told that if I go to Kisumu I must have been born there. No! Any Kenyan has a right to live where he or she wants to live. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, therefore, I want to urge hon. Members of this House to join hands to ensure that our people are not only resettled, but are also assisted to live like the rest of Kenyans. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to address the issue of compensation. When the time comes, we want to make sure that there is fairness to all the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in this country. It is a shame that we subjected our people to this kind of condition, simply because of an election. This Tenth Parliament must do what it takes to ensure that this does not happen again. Our people should never be subjected to what has happened because they are Kenyans. They are suffering because of what we have been fighting for, as politicians, and yet they are not part of this trouble. So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Members have individual and collective responsibilities to go out there and preach peace. we should not wait for the Government or the police to bring peace. It is up to us. Each Member of Parliament here should go to his constituency and ensure that there is peace. We should preach what we want our Kenyans to do. As I stand here, I want to say that there must come a time in the history of a country where those who are in power, like us Members of Parliament, must strive for those basic rights of our own people. Our IDPs are not enjoying those rights like the rest of Kenyans. How can we sit here as Members of Parliament and start saying that, we must put a process in place for those people to be resettled? Shame on us! We must make sure that these people are resettled. We must not put any condition or anything else to deter them from going back to their homes. I want to say that every Kenyan has a right to own property. If you bought your property in Mombasa, it is yours. You are a Kenyan. You cannot tell me that because I come from where I come from, I cannot buy a property in Wajir or Nyeri or wherever. This is our country. I think it is the responsibility of this House to ensure that our people are resettled, taken care of and fed. If you go to those camps--- May be some of the hon. Members do not come from areas where there are these problems. When I go home over the weekends, you would be surprised that thousands and thousands of people come to see me on these kind of things. They say that they are hungry and suffering. I would like to plead with this House that we must go out there to preach peace. We must support the resettlement of our people. We must make sure that they are catered for. We should not think of anything else apart from supporting these people who are suffering in these camps. We must, first of all, put Kenya and our people first before we think of ourselves. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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