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    "id": 196198,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Ngilu",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Water and Irrigation",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charity Kaluki Ngilu",
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    "content": "Let us not solve this problem in a technical manner. Let us ensure that people can live in an acceptable way. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not in any way saying that these people should not be resettled. But reading from the newspapers, and hearing what people are saying, there is a problem between the people who have been living together. Therefore, we need to understand the problem much more deeply than dealing with it by saying: \"The Government can settle so many people. We are putting aside so much money and putting up so many police stations\". We have got to understand much more than this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support that the IDPs need to go back to where they were living. We understand the law which provides that every Kenyan can live wherever he or she wants to live. We appreciate the law. But it would appear that this only applies to some group of a community. I know that people have tried to live in certain areas and they have been rejected in those areas. It is high time that we, as Kenyans, speak with one voice. If we allow people within our communities, when they come there, they should respect how we live. I have heard some of these people, who come from, especially, that area, speaking. They said they felt insulted because people from Machakos, for example, came to live in their village and even started calling that village \"Machakos\". Why call this place \"Machakos\" if it was being called \"Kitui\" in the past? We need to start understanding each other, so that we can live harmoniously. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is something else that is also making it very difficult for people to live together. Any time people get into Government, as we have done, instead of those in authority seeing how they can share positions, opportunities and businesses, they want to give all this to their own people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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