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"speaker_name": "Mr. Gabbow",
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"content": " Thank you. One of the clarifications sought by the hon. Members was whether a Cabinet Minister, two Assistant Ministers and one Backbencher from the Mau Forest Evictees Resettlement Committee have truly resigned from the Committee and the circumstances that led to their resignation. This cannot be found in the Bill. The second thing that they sought was whether the Ministry could give the current state of IDPs resettlement. I will table all the documents relating to that; it is a huge document and I do not need to go through it. I want to answer the first question, that the resettlement programme includes the Mau Forest Evictees, and is managed by a three-tier committee, namely the Cabinet Committee comprising of Ministers for finance, special programmes lands and agriculture. The Permanent Secretaries in these Ministries also sit in the committee. It is chaired by the Head of the Public Service. There is also a technical committee, or task force, comprising of officers from member Ministries. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not aware of any Member from the above committee who has resigned, nor the circumstances that may have led to the resignation. The Ministry has never been advised of the incorporation of any other committee or members that deal with IDPs. On the state of IDPs, out of the targeted population of 9,571 households of 2007 Post-Election Violence victims, 7,724 households have been resettled on 15,152.6 acres of land purchased by the Government, and 1,404 acres donated by the Municipal Council of Lodwar and the County Council of Turkana, leaving a balance of 1,847 households. Land required to resettle these households is about 5,859 acres. Of this, 5,312 acres of land are undergoing procurement processes. I do not want really to go through all these, but I will table a document indicating where the land is and what the status is; whether it is still being procured or it has a problem. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to table the list of parcels of land that the Government has purchased, the ones under procurement and parcels with pending issues. I also wish to clarify that the Ministry was only mandated to purchase land for resettlement of IDPs in camps, which did not include the integrated IDPs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, regarding the victims of clashes in Tana River, Mandera, Wajir, Turkana, Baringo, Samburu and Marsabit counties, the Government has been providing humanitarian assistance, which includes food and non- food items. I wish also to table a list of items that the Ministry has distributed to the clash"
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