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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, either the hon. Member was not listening to what I was saying, or he is probably skewed even in his listening to what I was saying. I was only correcting what hon. John Mbadi had insinuated this morning. He said that resettlement process was skewed towards certain communities and that there are integrated IDPs from certain communities who have been ignored from. If only hon. Mbadi can allow me to make this point, that the resettlement programme for integrated IDPs is still ongoing. It is true that there are Luos who were evicted from Central Kenya and other areas, the same way there are Kikuyus who were evicted from Kisumu. There are Merus whose big restaurants were burnt down in Kisumu; those people went back and re-integrated with the communities in other areas where they had come from across the country. I am only saying the President addressed himself to the question of the re-settlement of IDPs. Indeed, the President has said on more than one occasion, and so has the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Devolution and Planning, that this is an ongoing process. I am also aware of this because I have got petitions from my own constituency. IDPs who hailed from Kikuyu Constituency and other parts of Kiambu have integrated with their communities in our own constituency; they were evicted from the Rift-Valley and Luo-Nyanza. They are now integrated in our communities and Government is working to help them. Therefore it is really sad that we want to belittle this process of resettlement of IDPs. It is a process that within a period of less than a year the Government has acted on. We want to belittle it and make it look like the resettlement process was done only in certain areas. The point is, the resettlement will continue and will be done across the board."
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