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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this very, very important Motion. I would like to thank our colleague who brought it here, because it is of great importance. We have to discuss it as a House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) is a very, very unfortunate situation in this country. We must find one and lasting solution to the same. I would like to request hon. Members that, as we discuss this issue, let us seriously sober up so that we really address the real issues and ensure the success of the resettlement, that, we all say, should have been done yesterday. I remember that after we enacted the Accord, we all cried to the Government to form the Grand Coalition Cabinet, so that those people could be sorted out immediately. It took us quite sometime, but we are grateful to God that we now have it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to say here that on the resettlement exercise, we thank His Excellency the President for convening a meeting with Rift Valley MPs yesterday, so that we could chart the way forward on this very, very important process. Dear colleagues, we are dealing with lifes. I am grateful to hon. Members who have said that the security of every Kenyan lies mainly on the neighbour. We need to prepare the neighbours. It is so important! It is no use to remove a problem from here and create another problem within no time. We are saying that, first, we need to identify who the IDPs are. It is so important that, in the process of resettling IDPs, we do not create other IDPs. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have requested, and still do, that the issue of Mt. Elgon be taken very seriously. Since the operation in Mt. Elgon started, I have over 500 IDPs in my constituency from Mt. Elgon. We should not use double standards. Let us resettle IDPs. Let us stop the operation and engage in dialogue! This country, for the first time this year, has talked! We are always talking about dialogue. I believe that dialogue is the way forward for this country, if we really have to bring Kenya back again. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are IDPs who are living with their relatives and well wishers. We are requesting the Government to identify and resettle them. As we resettle those people, we get worried when we move so fast, especially for a neighbour of mine who was in Kiambu. If you asked him today to go back to Kiambu, he will give you a capital \"NO\". Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want to request the Government that, for those who do not wish to go back, let us find land elsewhere and resettle them. It is of great importance to us!"
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