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    "id": 302493,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "7. The Government should waive all outstanding medical bills owed by post- election violence IDPs in Government hospitals and pay those bills owed to private hospitals. 8. Further, the Government should provide a comprehensive medical cover to all IDPs until they are all resettled. We have an obligation as a State where the Government should ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance to all IDPs and ensure that each IDP has shelter, and that the current food rations cover all of them on a regular monthly basis until they are all settled. 9. The Government must set up a special bursary fund for IDPs’ children in secondary, tertiary institutions and universities. 10. The Government must ensure proper accounting on food and other resources taken to the camps. All persons responsible for misappropriation of resources must be prosecuted. 11. The Government must accelerate peace building, reconciliation and psychosocial efforts by increasing funding to the district peace and security committees in all the counties. 12. The mandate of the National Humanitarian Fund for Mitigation of Effects and Re-settlement of Victims of 2007 Violence should be expanded to cover all the IDPs including but not limited to the following:- Resettlement of 1992, 1997 and 2007 IDPs, forest evictees, historical IDPs, all squatters, pastoral conflict IDPs, victims of floods, landslides, drought and famine, among others. 13. The Government should fully operationalise the Department of Mitigation and Re-settlement in the Ministry of Special Programmes through adequate staffing and funding in order to give it capacity up to the district level. 14. The Government should fast track the implementation of Agenda No.4 as outlined in the National Accord and Reconciliation agreement of 2008. 15. The Government should fast track the approval of the draft national policy - and the Minister promised this House sometime back - on the prevention of internal displacements, protection and assistance to the IDPs in Kenya and the draft national disaster management policy to address persistent issues causing IDPs. 16. The Government should establish a legal framework on internal displacement through formulation of policy and enactment of a draft Bill on the prevention, protection and assistance to IDPs. This legal framework should take into account the UN guiding principles, the AU Convention and Great Lakes Protocol of Protection and Assistance of IDPS."
}