{"id":587324,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/587324/?format=json","text_counter":97,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Secondly, Kshs15 billion has been allocated for the IDPs programme. However, the criteria for profiling IDPs are extremely discriminatory. “Profiling IDPs” is also another wrong phase. The word “profiling” is a very negative concept. What the Government should have done was to identify IDPs with their predicament. During the 2007/2008 crisis, hon. Dalmas Otieno and I were responsible for ensuring that all the IDPs who were displaced from former Central Kenya; Nyeri, Kiambu and many other place and were held up at Limuru Police Station travelled back home. We organized buses to ferry them to Kisumu where they were housed in a church, St. Stephens Cathedral. Those were people who had been out of their regions for a long time, some as long as 50 years. The church had to identify the homes that they could go to. Therefore, to recognize them as people who were integrated, yet that was an emergency measure so that they could have somewhere to go to--. We did not want to take them to go to tents because that was very inhumane. Instead, they were taken to people’s homes. The Government’s responsibility was then to go to those homes and see how those people could be properly treated as Kenyans. However, to abandon them and give them a token of Kshs10,000 is a terrible abuse to humanity. I know of a man who lost his shop and children in Naivasha. He is housed in my location yet he was only given Kshs10,000 just because he is profiled as integrated yet other IDPs are receiving Kshs400,000. Rather than go on and on trying to deal with Ms. Waiguru, the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Devolution and Planning, I propose that we have a special audit of the IDP programme by the Auditor-General. When I was the Chairman of the Public Investments Committee (PIC) in the Seventh Parliament, we had a problem with the tea factories in Kericho. As a Committee, we ordered the Auditor-General to do a special audit and from the report of that audit, Parliament then knew what to do. However, at the moment, we cannot rely on statements by a Cabinet Secretary who tells us to “Forget the past and engage in nation building”; a mere child who was born the other day when we have been in politics for ages. I, therefore, ignore that statement and ask for a special audit to deal with this issue properly."}