{"id":587352,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/587352/?format=json","text_counter":125,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Ong’era","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13117,"legal_name":"Janet Ongera","slug":"janet-ongera"},"content":"Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you, for giving me this opportunity. I begin by thanking the Chairperson for reading this Statement. I am totally dissatisfied by what the Cabinet Secretary has outlined in the contents of that letter. I wish to seek further clarification on the following issues:- (1) The basis of determining the criteria for classifying some IDPs as total and others integrated and also the basis on which they allocated the Kshs400,000, Kshs10,000, land and others houses. These criteria are skewed, unreasonable and extremely biased. (2) The statement of the Cabinet Secretary; “forget the past and build the nation”. This statement is callous and negates the spirit of national cohesion, integration, reconciliation and resettling all IDPs. Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o did not tell you that he and I greatly suffered particularly in moving the IDPs who were in Naivasha. We moved them quickly because their lives were under threat. Therefore, when we got people who could accommodate them; these are now what is called “integrated IDPs”. It is a pity that these IDPs can just be given a paltry Kshs10,000. As I speak, there are still IDPs in Ekerenyo in Nyamira County and in Nyamache in Kisii County where I come from. Therefore, we cannot just be told to forget the past; our spirit is still wounded, we are still bleeding hence we cannot hear anything of a callous statement that says “forget the past and let us build the nation.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support what the Senate Minority Leader has said. Let us have a Committee of this House formed to interrogate these issues. I also support what Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o said; let us have a forensic audit done on how this money is being spent and allocated."}