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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Devolution and National Planning has now completed the resettlement of IDPs and forest evictees living in camps and has embarked on profiling and subsequent resettlement of integrated IDPs in a comprehensive manner. The Ministry is appealing to Parliament and the Treasury to set aside adequate funds to enable the Government to assist the integrated IDPs once profiling is completed. It was worth noting that there have been petitions for assistance from those affected or evicted prior to the 1992 and 1997 elections. Thirdly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the question of how many IDPs will be catered for by the Kshs1 billion that has been set aside, who they are and how they have been selected, the distribution of those to benefit from the Kshs1 billion has already been covered in No. 1 above. However, the Government also wishes to add that those groups of IDPs were selected for this programme because they were still living in camps and the Government wanted to close all the camps once and for all before embarking on settling integrated IDPs. Fourth, Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the number of IDPs who opted not to stay in the camps but went to stay with their relatives, and want the Government to resettle them, the official number of profiled integrated IDPs as at 31st December, 2008 was 170,416 households. These IDPs opted not to stay in camps but instead opted to stay with friends, relatives and well-wishers. Out of these, 95,728 households have been paid start-up capital of Kshs10,000 while the remaining 75,118 households are yet to be assisted. Fifth, Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the number of IDPs who have been settled and how they were compensated given that the Kshs1 billion being rolled out was said to be the last payment ever to IDPs and the camps: In the past, IDPs and forest evictees have been settled through various programmes as follows:- 1. “Rudi Nyumbani” . Through Operation “Rudi Nyumbani”, 74,847 households were successfully persuaded to voluntarily return to their previous farms. All of them were paid start-up capital of Kshs10, 000. In addition, 37,843 household among them were paid Kshs25,000 each to reconstruct their partially damaged houses while a total of 71,473 low cost houses were constructed for those whose house were totally destroyed. 2. On land resettlement, in totality,---"
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