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    "id": 383421,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Well, you can draw pararells. I do not want to conclude without addressing the issue that was raised in this Motion by Sen. G.G. Kariuki, that we must profile these IDPs. We have problems of IDPs because we are afraid, we do not want to face them and tell them some truths. We have some IDPs whose only business in Rift Valley was that they were having a kiosk. The only thing they lost was that kiosk. But after they were displaced, they moved away from claiming the kiosk which they lost, they are now claiming five to ten acres of land. Surely, if somebody is claiming that he or she is an IDP from Kiambaa in Eldoret, if he or she, indeed, had land there, there is a chief, sub-chief, DC and DO from that area. These officials will tell us, for example: “This guy called John Kamau, who is claiming land has plot No. “X”, “Y” or “Z”. That man will then be settled. We cannot indefinitely be pumping public funds into the needs of professional squatters and IDPs. Let those who did not have land be humble enough and not claim it. In my own community, for example, we had many Luhyas who were displaced. But because they were doing other things where they were other than owning land, they were integrated in their families and this matter ended there. But there are others who want to practice conmanship; they pretend they are IDPs who lost land when they had no land at all. We know them. When you profile them, you will realise that even some of their surnames seem to have a pattern. This must be stopped if we really want to rise to nationalism."
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