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    "content": "talks of the quotas – why do we not apply that principle, so that even as you settle IDPs from other areas, you also consider the local IDPs? Land for settlement has become very scarce in this country. It is scarce all over the world and even China could be worse, but we have to look at settlement from the perspective of at least every citizen having a place called home; a shelter. If you cannot get agricultural land, at least the beginning point is to have a place you can call home perhaps even in an urban setting. Why does one take an IDP who is used to urban life and is not an agriculturalist and go and give him two acres of land to start agriculture? This is not viable. Sometimes they have had to sell their land and go back to where they came from. So, we have to look at the whole issue of resettlement of our people. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are IDPs who were in their traditional lands, for example, the Ndorobo, the Ogiek and so forth, whose land was really in the forest. When the forests were gazetted, they had to be removed from what they called their home. Some of them are still living on the roadside where they are suffering. Will they really be proud to be Kenyans? While we are doing that, we are not taking care of them but continue politicking over who owns what and so forth and so on. Really, we should look at our people to ensure they are all settled. With those few remarks, I want to support this Motion but beg to move those amendments and ask Sen. (Dr.) Machage to second."
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