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    "id": 59627,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Kilimo",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing",
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        "legal_name": "Linah Jebii Kilimo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the time to contribute. In support of the Presidential Speech, I really appreciate the fact that he would want us to fast-track the youth policy in Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, so that we can help the youth of this country. Article 45(4) of the Constitution is of great interest to me because it is about the protection of harmful cultural practices and exploitation. In particular, I am referring to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and child labour in this country. Hopefully, these vices will now be eliminated once and for all. However, I am really saddened that the President did not say anything about the IDPs, more so, the Government displaced persons like those ones found in Embobut Forest in my constituency, whereby for 120 days, being a Government Minister, I thought that I should support the Government in removing people out of the forest in order to conserve the Cherengany Hills. However, three years down the line, I am a person who is full of regret that now my people are feeling cold in Embobut Forest. They cannot make noise because they are marginalized. The Ministry just looks at those who are able to make noise, go on the streets and can be accessed by television, so that their issues are addressed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to those people who are in the IDP camps, could they show us where they came from? Their names are known. They are 2,964 families. Each one of them can tell the Government where they came from. They can say they came from this and that forest. They were promised to be resettled. However, up to now, this has not been done. It is very sad. There are others who are camped in Sambala Trading Centre because of a landslide. This is a natural phenomenon. I am grateful that at that time the Commissioner of Police Mr. Iteere came to their rescue. He brought rescuers using police choppers. That is why I have a lot of respect for the police and our security forces in this country. But now these people are just being fed in those tents. To get to the tents on time is a challenge. No one is feeding the IDPs who are in Embobut. The only IDPs who are getting food are those ones by the roadside. Is it because you only use a path to reach the displaced people that people in Embobut Forest are not fed? This is something that I feel the President should have taken into consideration. Another issue which was not captured in President’s Speech was food for the Turkana, Pokot and Tot Division in my constituency. We have to wait for a letter from the Ministry of State for Special Programmes to National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB). Then the NCPB writes another letter to the DC to go and look for food in Eldoret. We have known that this is something that happens every year. When our people are suffering, I expect the Government to erect silos in North Eastern Province, Turkana and Pokot, so that we make sure that there is food all the time. We do not have to wait for people to die to rush there with relief food. I beg to support."
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