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    "id": 383695,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, hon. Wamatangi was advancing an argument, but not a point of order. However many times you shout a lie, it will never become the truth. The truth in Africa today – I am not referring to him. I am just making a statement and so do not feel guilty – is that we are having leaders, who once they lose, persist to stay in power. This has happened in Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire and much nearer home, there was a recent experience. Let me now come to the issue of IDPs. I congratulate my friend, G.G. Kariuki. He knows and I know that there is one fundamental cause to the IDP problem. That is the issue of land. Unless we deal with the issue of land and have proper land reforms and redistribution, we will continue to have IDPs. Even if we think that currently there is an impasse, this is not a solution. As it has happened elsewhere in history, impasses usually wait for an hour when they again rear their ugly heads in commotion. Therefore, I would like to urge that as we seek to settle the present problem of IDPs which we have even in my own county--- There are people who in January and February 2008 were “bussed” out of various parts of Kenya. There was, indeed, a camp in Limuru where we picked people and took them to Kisumu. The only difference between IDPs in Nyanza and those that you will find elsewhere is that they were absorbed within the family systems. They were promised some Kshs10,000 per family. I The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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