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    "id": 585432,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chebet",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Kipketer Chebet",
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    "content": "and the county governments; the county governments being the preparation areas while the national Government takes the responsibility of recognizing and even celebrating the heroes and heroines that we have in Kenya. If we can do that, it means that we can have some money coming into the country through those activities. We can also earn some money at the county level. So we want each of the levels to occupy the specific areas and play their roles well. When we talk about Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kenya these days, we are talking about people who have been displaced because of political upheavals. However, we also know - and I agree with the Member who has just spoken - that we have people who have been displaced by disasters, encroachment by other people and forcible eviction by the Government. For example, the Ogiek were removed from the forest many years ago and now they are displaced. We are also looking at activities of the national Government like what we have in the Fluorspar Company of Kenya in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, where the Government took over the mining area and later on transferred it to a private company. The people who are occupying that land are now IDPs. They may not be using the word IDP, but they are people who have been taken hostage. They cannot move around freely on their land or cultivate it. So, those are some of the things we need to consider before apportioning responsibilities to either the county governments or the national Government. In that respect, the national Government should take the responsibility of resettling the people because the county government does not have the means. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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