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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is unfortunate that we have shortened the time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, from the onset, I wish to indicate that we are worried. We do not like the attitude being portrayed that there are any persons or leaders who are reluctant to sort out the problem of IDPs. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want to make it very clear--- We made it very clear since yesterday - and a number of Ministers were present in that meeting - that we want this issue sorted out very quickly. However, we said that, that process started yesterday. The very meeting that we held yesterday was the beginning of the process. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want those people settled quickly, but we have got to move in the correct direction! We have to reconcile the two neighbours who were fighting! We cannot just dismiss the people in the camps and tell them: \"Now, go back to your homes!\" They would have gone on their own! We have to be sensitive about what could easily erupt. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are several other IDPs who are not in the recognized camps. There are those who are with their relatives and there are those who have dispersed. Those IDPs should be identified. There are those IDPs that have been created by Government evictions. We feel that, as a gesture of goodwill, the Government should resettle those ones as quickly as well! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are IDPs being created by Government operations, especially in Mt. Elgon. The amount of torture that is being used in Mt. Elgon is unspeakable! It is being done in the proportion only known during the last regime. I am prepared to produce photographs of our children who are being burnt alive. That is very serious and I think that if you want reconciliation, we must stop the operation in Mt. Elgon immediately! Secondly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those who have problems--- Those IDPs, like the ones who talked on television yesterday, are saying that they just do not want to go back! If anybody feels that he is threatened where he wants to go, the Government has got an obligation to give him a safe settlement. I think that is within our purview as leaders in this House! Let us not talk with emotion! Let us look at the issue seriously! We are proposing the establishment of a Parliamentary Select Committee to even assist on this issue. We are aware that there was a suggestion about committees yesterday, and we are generally in agreement with that. However, we are not--- I would like to upgrade that and say that, that committee should not just be set up by administrative peers. That is because they can be dismissed tomorrow by the same Executive peers. Let this House come up with a Select Committee to look at that issue and several other underlying issues that are affecting the IDPs. We do not want to see the recurrence of the problem about IDPs year in, year out."
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