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    "id": 302546,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Letimalo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raphael Lakalei Letimalo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my concern here and appeal to the Minister who is here is: What is the mandate of the Committee? If you look at Article “E” the mandate of the Committee is to identify and categorize IDPs in camps, integrated, pastoralists and forest evictees. When you talk about pastoralists, this actually has a lot to do with communal conflicts. My disappointment with the Committee is that even many of the visits are actually concentrated on IDP camps and forest evictees. They forgot about the pastoralists. More specifically, those are cases that happened in Laikipia. If you go to a place like Ol Moran, many members of the Kikuyu community were displaced. We had also clashes between the Pokots and Samburus. Many of them were actually displaced and had to move to either Samburu, West Pokot and more specifically to places like Baringo East. It is unfortunate that this Committee did not visit Laikipia or the districts that I have just pointed out. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to tell the Minister that if he goes to Laikipia, he will find people who have individual ranches and title deeds but, because of the conflicts, they have moved away and have not come back. I know that may not fall directly in the docket of the Minister of State for Special Programmes. It has a lot to do with the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security. I even know that in the Budget for this financial year, it is actually factored. Funds have been allocated to ensure that people are able to go back to their original places, but that is not being done. So, I would like to appeal to the Minister that as the Government implements the recommendations that have been given by this Committee, it should also consider integrated IDPs. That is because some people have got a very queer culture. I know of my"
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