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    "content": "Bill, but we have been persuading, interrogating and chasing this Government to come up with the IDP policy. We have asked Questions to that effect on the Floor of this House. The Draft Policy is ready but I do not know what it is doing sitting in the Cabinet. We want that policy to come out as a matter of priority. I was happy the Minister responded to the Ministerial Statement which had sought about the issue of the settlement of the Mau Forest evictees. I want this country to appreciate one thing that if the Coalition Government is not going to resettle an IDP, it means that it has failed to discharge the obligation of a basic task that it accepted to perform as part of the negotiated process of Kofi Annan. I want to plead with Kenyans that the time will come when any person who had been given the mandate of a specific task like this one and did not perform must be discharged at the ballot box come the next general election. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we had even contemplated a slogan like this: “No resettlement of IDPs, no elections”. However, then we realized that we will be giving this incompetent Government more time in office when they should have left office many years ago by failing to implement all the agendas that was agreed, as part of the Serena talks. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I conclude, I want to refer to Article 43 of the Constitution, so that this Government does think, it is just rubber stamping, hon. Ethuro, Member for Turkana Central, who is trying to be a pain for them. But they have a constitutional obligation to this nation. Article 43(1) says:- “Every person has the right— ( a ) to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care services, including reproductive health care; ( b ) to accessible and adequate housing, and to reasonable standards of sanitation;” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we can confirm that in all the camps that was never assured by this Government. “( c ) to be free from hunger, and to have adequate food of acceptable quality”. I can confirm to you what the Minister was tabling here, were ordinary ration of relief. What we had even sought in the Statement was that the Government must always be in a state of preparedness, so that when there are clashes in Tana River, the Government will have been there to provide, if they took our report seriously and learnt any lessons from the post-election violence. “( d ) to clean and safe water in adequate quantities; (e) to social security; and ( f ) to education”. Even in today’s media, they talk of an IDP candidate, who is worried, whether he will sit for his examinations because this Government has failed to make teachers to go back to the classrooms. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Article 43(3) states:- “The State shall provide appropriate social security to persons who are unable to support themselves and their dependants”"
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