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    "content": "ESTABLISHMENT OF SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE T HE CRITERIA USED TO PROFILE AND PAY INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS THAT WHEREAS the Prevention, Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons and Affected Communities Act makes provision for the prevention, protection and provision of assistance to internally displaced persons and affected communities and gives effect to the Great Lakes Protocol on the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons, and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement; OBSERVING that the Act establishes the National Consultative Coordination Committee on Internally Displaced persons whose mandate is to inter alia, ensure registration of internally displaced persons and maintain a data base of such persons and advise the Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and National Planning on the exercise of his or her powers and functions under the Act; CONCERNED that the Statement delivered to the Senate on 30th September, 2015 by the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare as a response to inquiries on the status of IDPs resettlement points to the fact that the distribution of the Internally Displaced Persons Fund, which was approximately kshs15 billion, was done in a discriminatory manner and the criterion for profiling the IDPs was skewed; NOW THEREFORE, the Senate resolves to establish a Select Committee to investigate the operations of the Ministry of Devolution and National Planning and the National Consultative Coordination Committee on Internally Displaced Persons as far as resettlement process and criteria used to profile and pay IDPs is concerned and further determine whether the Kshs15 billion was used for the intended purpose and report back to the Senate within three months; AND FURTHER that the Members of the Select Committee are- 1. Sen. Boy Juma Boy 2. Sen. Stephen Sang’ 3. Sen. Muriuki Karue 4. Sen. Anyang’ Nyong’o This is a First Draft Copy. A final copy will be available once the editorial process is concluded."
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