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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, from the above findings and observations, the Committee made the following recommendations:- 1. The Government should immediately undertake a re-vetting exercise of IDPs to ascertain the genuine ones and re-settle them forthwith. The vetting exercise should be public, inclusive and be conducted by a committee that includes, but not limited to, village elders, IDP representatives, local chiefs, religious leaders and area Members of Parliament. 2. Those found to be fake IDPs, following the re-vetting exercise, should be arrested and prosecuted. 3. The Government must recognise all categories of IDPs, including integrated IDPs. We realised that in some areas where the host communities hosted IDPs, a burden which should have been borne by the Government; the Government decided to abandon such IDPs even though it was much easier to facilitate relatives of such IDPs or other people who had actually shouldered that burden. The Government, instead, concentrated on the visible IDPs who were living on camps. 4. The Government must accelerate and conclude the re-settlement of all post- election violence IDPs and forest evictees by May, 2012. We are just concerned that we are going to another general election and the IDPs are still out there. A government that has a contract of five years must, surely, finish its business within the contractual period. These include 4,691 IDPs in camps, 3,898 IDPs in Ol Kalou, 2,597 IDP households in Turkana, 2,459 Mau Forest evictees; 2,964 Embobut Forest evictees, and 48 Kipkunur Lake Forest Quarters IDPs. The settlement programme must be extended to include historical IDPs, especially the Talai people in Kericho and Kipkelion, who were 1,867 IDPs; Trans Nzoia squatters, 5,977, Kipkurere in Nandi, 997 IDPs; Elgeyo Sing’ore squatters, 36 households; Joguru/Kilindine IDPs in Tharaka, 135 households; Machaka Village squatters in Meru Central District, 604 households; Chyulu Hills squatters in Makueni and coastal squatters. I want to confirm that the Government has, at least, made some moves in re- settling the Talai IDPs although there are still complaints that it had not made adequate provisions. 5. The Government should accelerate the payment of Kshs10,000 and Kshs25,000 to all IDPs who have not been paid. The Government must not be seen to discriminate in those payments. 6. The Government must complete the construction of shelters for all categories of IDPs, including the integrated IDPs before May 2012."
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