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"content": "(Sen. (Prof) Kindiki): Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. There was a question regarding the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who opted not to stay in camps and went to stay with their relatives and what the Government is doing 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 and stayed with their relatives and friends. Out of this, 95,000 households have been paid Kshs10,000 each. The remaining 75,118 households are yet to be assisted because of shortage of funds. Through the “Operation Rudi Nyumbani” 74,847 households were successfully persuaded to voluntarily return to their previous farms. All of them were paid a start-up capital of Kshs10,000. Another 37,843 households among them were paid Kshs25,000 to reconstruct their partially damaged houses, while a total of 71,473 low-cost houses were constructed for those whose houses were totally destroyed. Regarding the issue of land resettlement, in total 8,754 IDPs’ households, including 2,593 IDPs from Turkana County and 1,437 forest evictees’ households including 613 host communities, were settled on Government procured land measuring 20,631 acres and 4,741 acres respectively. Each household was provided with 2.25 acres and a low-cost house. The other intervention has been through cash payments. A total of 8,409 households were resettled through cash payments of Kshs400,000 each in cash, in Phase One, in 2013. They included IDPs from Gilgil, Mai Mahiu, 934; Mau Forest evictees, 1,896; Kieni Forest evictees, 805; Teldet Forest evictees, 392; Embobut Forest evictees 2,874; Kipkurere Forest evictees, 1,192 and Mau additional evictees, 316. In addition, the National Consultative Coordination Committee (NCCC) on IDPs repatriated 246 Kenyan IDPs that were living in Uganda as refugees. Each was paid between Kshs100,000 and Kshs150,000, depending on family size. In the second phase of cash payments, there were 5,387 IDPs and forest evictees. Each was paid Kshs200,000 in lieu of land. This included 2,127 Nandi Forest evictees, 425 Konoin Forest evictees, 357 Sambalat landslide victims, 1,077 Mauche Forest evictees and 1,401 IDPs from 26 various camps. A total of Kshs1.077 billion was used in this exercise. In Phase Three of the cash payment, 5,261 IDPs and forest evictees were covered, as shown in the table in Annex 1, which will be tabled together with this Statement. Each of these will get Kshs200,000, as proposed. Regarding the integrated IDPs, there were a total of 170,416 households categorized as integrated IDPs living among the various communities in the country. The integrated IDPs were all to be paid Kshs10,000 as start-up capital. To date, 95,298 The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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