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    "content": "country. We must also be sensitive to community’s interest and values when we are settling people in various areas. The interests and concerns of the local communities must be taken into consideration. Ordinarily, we can settle thousands and thousands of people in the midst of a community in a country without consultations. So, all that we do is to try and consult with the local communities. My sister; the Minister of State for Special Programmes, has been at this for quite a bit. We have been together even in places where we have faced some resistance when settling IDPs. With consultations with the local communities, we are finding that it is not difficult to settle people there. Difficulties only arise, if there are no consultations with the local communities. This is not to say that IDPs cannot be settled in any part of this country, but we must consider the interest of the local communities. I would like to remind the hon. Member that a lot of land in this country belongs to communities. What has now been categorized as community land under the old Constitution was trust land. Therefore, ordinarily, trust land is held for the interest of residents in those particular counties. Therefore, if all that is put together, there would be no resistance or any difficulties to settle the IDPs. I think the last question that was raised by the Member for Lari with regard to Phase 3 of Chepchoina Settlement Scheme, it is ongoing, but sometimes the process of consultations and identification of those who qualify for settlement takes time. According to the standards we are using is that a person must be poor or landless. Hon. Ethuro, perhaps, knows that in Kwanza, where he had some interest, the problem was that previously the land was meant for the poor and landless, but it ended up in the hands of senior people in Government or other people who were not deserving. But I want to assure the Member for Lari that we will try as much as possible to expedite this process and by the end of December, we should be able to complete Phase 3 of Chepchoina Settlement Scheme."
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