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    "content": "Persons (IDPs). I know very many of them have been compensated but the so-called Integrated IDPs have not. For example, we have 30,000 integrated IDPs in my county but none of them has been compensated. These things happen and they could happen to anybody. That is not their fault or the fault of any particular individual. These people are languishing in abject poverty and experience serious problems. Sometimes, some of the parents there, mostly women with children, do not know what to do. They come to us, as leaders, to beg for money to pay school fees for their children. There is no system set out for that. Some of them have no idea what they will eat in the evening. You will find a woman coming to you crying, something which leaves you wondering how you can help her. I appeal to the President and his Deputy to concentrate and focus on compensating or “helping”, if I may use that word, the integrated IDPs. This is because they have nowhere to stay. They live in tents or in somebody’s land for a while and they do not know what to do. Lastly, Members of the National Assembly who thought for some reason it is a good idea to blow their whistles in the House during the Joint Sitting of Parliament should rethink such decisions. We are elected by the people. They should have waited for the right time to express their concerns the way we are doing here. Everybody knew that when the President speaks, we are not supposed to say anything. However, we are given a chance the way I am now speaking. You can express your feelings and do whatever you want. You can agree or disagree and criticise whatever you want and there is a chance for that. I would like to appeal to Members of the National Assembly---. I think they are called Members because I do not think there were no any Members from the Jubilee side blowing whistlers. I appeal that they rethink such decisions in future as they review what they did. There was also an hon. Member who thought it is not a good idea to stand when the President says let us stand in honour of our fallen soldiers. It is bad enough that we ended up with our soldiers in Somalia. I personally believe that our situation with the terrorists would have been much worse if we did not have our soldiers in Somalia. It is an unfortunate situation where some of them died. We may see them as soldiers and expect such to happen to them but we must honour them. When such things happen and the President who is in charge of the country and the armed forces fraternity asks us to remember those fallen heroes, we should respect him. Some of them come from your own constituencies yet you think you do not want to honour them. I would like to appeal to that particular individual to do some soul-searching and see whether what he did was correct. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, I appeal to the Presidents of Africa to sit and give us direction. That is why we put them in charge. They should tell us why we subscribed to the ICC and why they think we do not belong there. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you."
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