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    "id": 302510,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "later saw written by Maina Kiai after she died, came before our committee. She had lost two or three sons during the post-election violence period. She was herself displaced, I think one of the sons lost a leg, one was shot, she herself was raped and she eventually died of HIV/AIDS. Those are people who did not even get the Kshs10,000 ex-gratia payment. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we stood there I saw one of our hon. Members almost cry. It was really shocking. There must be an element in us that is human before we say where we come from. I must feel the pain of a Kalenjin. I must feel the pain of a Kikuyu. I must feel the pain of a Luo. There must be something about a Luo that is human and about a Kikuyu that is human. We must look at people as human beings. There was a woman whom I remember to date who told us a story about her having come with the head of her husband in a paper bag. When she came there she told us she was living in a goat pen. She was a young woman. She had never received any compensation, not even the Kshs10,000. Kisumu had one of the highest concentration of people who had not received any support because they were the so called integrated IDPs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of integrated IDPs is a myth. This is because most of these people are not integrated. When we went to Kisii we met women who had left their own homes earlier because they had been ostracized. When they went back their homes had been taken over and they said they were called outcasts because people said they were witches or their grandparents were witches. We are calling these women integrated IDPs. They are living in market places; they are unwanted in Kisii. One woman burst out and started crying. We had nothing to do for this woman. When we went to the boundary of Dr. Joyce Laboso’s--- I cannot remember; was it the boundary of the Kisii and the Kalenjin? The situation was equally bad. The Kalenjins were saying because of a cultural norm known as kipkaa they were not able to talk and say the things that affected them. However, after encouraging them the women were saying how they had been raped, their houses had been burnt and their things destroyed. They said they were not being helped because they were either not documented or they had pursued these issues until they had given up. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Rongai--- I said it before this House. I remember some people telling me to stop politicizing it but I was proven right, I do not know whether it was a week or two weeks ago when we saw it breaking. I gave a warning in this House that I saw it with my own eyes in Rongai. A Kikuyu woman stood up and said, “Please, tell the Government to stop discriminating against other IDPs, because you are looking at us as Kikuyus”. The camps that we saw were divided because people lived as tribes, understandably, at that time. The settlement schemes were along ethnic lines. That is why even when Mr. Kigen raised the issue of Alko IDPs--- There are IDPs who took our numbers and who call me to date. Alko IDPs, for those who know are predominantly Luo, Luhya, some Kisii and some Kalenjins. They were told they would be resettled. They were told to go back and look for relatives. They went and did that. What has happened to most of them? Some in Nakuru are resettled and some have not been compensated. Minister, I want to urge you, speaking as a human being, we are setting ordinary Kenyans against each other. Please, take this issue seriously. I raised the issue of Rongai"
}