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    "id": 383730,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I also rise to support this Motion. When I look at history and I want us to take this as leaders in the Senate knowing very well that the Constitution also gives us the mandate to look at our boundaries and knowing very well that we have Internally Displaced People (IDPs) across the whole country and not just in the Rift Valley and Central provinces. When we talk about IDPs, the issue of land comes in and it becomes emotional. I want to challenge the Members of the 10th Parliament and I know many of them are here and others were Ministers in this country and when you are a Minister, you are supposed to do your duty in terms of serving all Kenyans. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you look at the issue of IDPs in this country, it goes way back to 1963. At that time, we were struggling with structures of Independence and building a country. As we speak today, when you look at what happened in 2007 and when we visited Rift Valley, we realized that we needed to address the root cause of our 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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