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    "content": "problems, which are land issues. It was not just the Kikuyu, the Kalenjin, the Kisii but all communities. It is the same politicians who are now talking differently that made us to go through the challenges that our citizens went through. Today, if we want to solve this problem, then we have to look at all the researches that have been done by the Government. I went round and even stayed in Burnt Forest for not less than three weeks, there was clear data. We segregated for every household of IDPs. The retired President wanted to solve the problem of IDPs but as leaders here, we know what the challenge has been. We have seen that they have identified land but if they cannot negotiate with those who live in those areas, conflicts will always be there. The reason why most of them have not been settled is because of the issue of agreeing with the indigenous community that is within that area and the people who are supposed to be settled there. Therefore, if we think we can assist the Government to deal with the issue of IDPs, then we need to ask ourselves as Senators how we are going to go about it especially in the hotspots. How do we sit down together with the community so that we integrate each other to accept a brother who is coming? We have reached a point in Kenya where we need to know that land is diminishing because of the population that we are bringing up as we continue with productive health. We also need to ask ourselves whether we want to continue only believing that the economic livelihood of one is land. This is where the challenge is. Is there a way we can improve on different ways of ensuring that every Kenyan, regardless of who has land, is able to put food on the table? The root cause of all this is poverty. If every family in this country today would have a small piece of land where they can get their food, we would live as brothers and sisters. But to come and start pointing fingers at those who have huge tracts of land, we only look at ourselves but we forget that the same leaders have also decided to give the international community very huge tracts of land. We have given them ranches while our brothers and sisters are looking for only one acre to live in but we have decided that a"
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