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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to support this Motion. I do not think that we really need a Motion of Adjournment for the Government to get organized just as when we are not in the plenary; we have time to do committee work. So, that cannot be the reason for us to seek this break. The only good reason is that Parliament will now have the opportunity to interrogate some of the matters that have appeared before the House. The Government should deal with the matters of drought and famine. We are celebrating the third anniversary of the Coalition Government. The Government needs to demonstrate to this country the benefits of a Coalition Government. The Government has spent a lot time trying to play against each other. The time to play political games in this country is over. Let us use the remaining one-and-a-half years to deliver what we agreed on. If you look at the issues at the time the two principals were signing the agreement, the first one was to stop the post-election hostilities. We achieved that one. We then embarked on Agenda IV which was about the long-term issues. We now have got a new Constitution and it is awaiting implementation. These things are important to us as a Parliament. The Government cannot take for granted that 1,500 Kenyan lives were lost. Are we telling Kenyans that it is okay for them to lose their lives as collateral damage for the sake of us getting into power? This break of two weeks will be necessary for the Government. The Government must know that we pay them to perform the job of Government. It must realize that there should be no competition between the President and the Prime Minister. You will notice that every time one of them is travelling, the other one is also travelling in the other direction. Talk about shuttle diplomacy, and to me that is a waste of public funds. With regard to assessing drought, there is no assessment being done. We are just using the opportunity to move around to campaign for ourselves. It is high time we ensured that if we assess drought, then let it be so and not a matter of conducting political party meetings. If it is shuttle diplomacy let us do what is good for this country. None of us is greater than the Republic of Kenya, regardless of whether you are the President, the Prime Minister or the Vice-President. Let us do what is good for this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is now the fourth year since the IDPs went into camps. The Government made a commitment that by December, 2010, all IDPs would be resettled. I want the Front Bench to commit itself. The new deadline of 30th June, 2011 shall never be extended. It is embarrassing that four years down the line we still have IDPs. Those people are there because of us! Furthermore, there are 3,000 households of IDPs in Turkana and yet we in Turkana did not participate in post-election violence. However, we have given them land. The Government agreed to give the IDPs some money and building materials. However, it has not resettled people who are not living on controversial land. We have accepted those people and we have told them not to go back where they came from. We have hosted them and they are not going anywhere. They will be in Turkana even with all our problems. Is that too much to ask of a responsible Coalition Government? Is it a coalition of confusion and âit-is-our-turn-to-eatâ? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have taken a decision as Parliament. Under the Parliamentary Select Committee, we want to ensure that all those IDPs are resettled. Failure to do so, we will interrogate this mater on the Floor. The Standing Orders give us capacity to deal with Ministers who fail to implement the resolutions of the House. This Parliament has performed. I am actually surprised that the Government Whip could say that we have not performed. We have performed! We have sent Ministers packing! That is good accountability. We have never lacked quorum and if you noticed, in the last few months, the quorum has been so huge. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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