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    "id": 49726,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M.M. Ali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ali Mohamud Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I appreciate this interrogation from Mr. Koech. We need to provide the insight into these IDPs. Many people did not appreciate the magnitude of the number of IDPs from the onset. A picture has been created that much has not been done while the converse is the case. At the onset, we had a total of 663,000 IDPs in this country. Today, we are talking of 6,978 IDPs from the post-election violence. This means that we have resettled more than 98 per cent of the IDPs. This means a lot of progress has been made and this must be appreciated. Compared to what we had at the beginning, you will appreciate that we are left with slightly under two per cent to settle. You will appreciate the challenges that we have been having. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, now that you have appreciated that, I will come to the second bit; where you have asked if they owned land previously. Most of the ones we registered through the Provincial Administration did not own their own land. They used to rent houses. They had businesses in the areas where violence occurred. Therefore, when they were displaced, they had nowhere to go to. They had to go to camps. Very few, if any, had land but because of insecurity, some of them sold their land and went away. Otherwise, the majority of the group in the camps we are talking about are those who did not own any land of their own. When the Government gave them Kshs10, 000 each as startup capital, they came together, formed self-help groups and bought small parcels of land. The Government felt that since the conditions were deplorable, it would go ahead and help them get decent living conditions."
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