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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "The prevention, protection and assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Affected Communities Act No.56 of 2012 also received a lot of attention from the areas with high numbers of IDPs. When we look at the provisions in the Committee, we will be guided by the views that have come from the Members. Most importantly, we want to look at the question of IDPs vis-à-vis the Restorative Justice Fund that the President announced on the Floor of this House. This is a Kshs10 billion Fund. In the first year, we followed this with the National Treasury and Kshs1 billion was put in the budget for the Financial Year 2015/2016. The money is not sufficient but we have to start somewhere. If the kitty for the Restorative Justice Fund can start functioning, the IDPs and other affected communities can start to benefit from it. There would be guidelines that we are expecting from the Attorney-General’s Chambers. It is not true to say that Government has abandoned the IDPs; the Government has done everything it can over the years to redress the IDPs but more still need to be done. Sufficient legal provisions are still necessary as what is proposed here in the Report that we are discussing--- On the question of IDPs, the Restorative Justice Fund that is going to be set up already has Kshs1 billion but in total a commitment of Kshs10 billion, should see us move some distance in matters of IDPs. In some counties, my county included, we had what we call “invisible IDPs” where people went back home and started to live with their relatives. There will be other measures that will be proposed in terms of redressing IDPs including giving scholarships and facilitating them to earn a living where they are. We will be looking at all those measures in the Restorative Justice Fund. Again, I want to thank the Members of this House and the Members who contributed and participated. I also want to thank the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, the Senate and the Senate Committee that looked at this Bill before. We hope that our country will get proper legal framework that we need to make sure that devolution is moving in the right direction. As we look at the laws around devolution, we should ensure that all the actors are playing their roles and none of the actors is moving to a mandate that is not theirs. Bodies that are new like the CoG will have to settle in our legal system. We have the Senate and the National Assembly. Have those ones settled on their mandate? Increasingly, the other new bodies that have come onto the scene also get their mandate but none of the bodies affects or interferes with the mandate and powers of the national Government in terms of running the affairs of this country. We thank you and urge Members to support the Bill in the Committee of the whole House and in the Third Reading and make sure that these Bills see the light of day and become law. Thank you."
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