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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Munyes",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiyonga Munyes",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I want to thank the Chair of this Committee for that long answer, it beats logic why one would be paid Kshs10, 000 (US$100). Very little money has been paid to IDPs and I would not understand why one would be paid such little money but let me go to the Turkana experience. Over 10,000 Turkanas lost their property. We, in Turkana, allocated them land, the Government initiated construction of houses and for the last seven years, they have not completed half of them. I want to put a very small suggestion. I know this is a cash cow because Kshs15 billion is not little money. This is more than Anglo-Leasing. There are people ripping off this country billion of shillings because of this confusion. We want to follow up this issue, and all of us have agreed that we form a Select Committee to look at this matter. I want to support what the Senator for Nandi County said. I know some people would want to take advantage of this for sure. We want to step up the amount from Ksh10,000 to some significant amount. Construction of those houses should be completed. For the new IDPs, they should identify where they came from because the country should not lose money. For the new ones, they should show us where they were residing before this whole saga of post election violence came up. I want to end there by supporting that we need a Select Committee to audit what has happened. So much has been paid to Turkana and is going to some few pockets yet there are still IDPs begging, sleeping out in incomplete houses with all the problems of insecurity and famine, just to name a few. Thank you. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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