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    "content": "Government is encouraging the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to report any cases of deprivation of their property by third parties. An issue was raised about the policy of the Government of Kenya regarding IDPs. The policy is, first and foremost, to implement fully the prevention, protection and assistance of IDPs Act of 2012. In that context, the Attorney General has advised that the IDPs Act only deals with 2007/2008 post election violence. That is the official policy now. Other than that, the President has made a public statement that the focus going forward will be on integrated IDPs now that, essentially, all those who were encamped ought to have been settled. Although we are seeing new claims. The position of the Government is that those claims need to be investigated because some of them could be false. But the greater and more fundamental challenge of integrated IDPs being assisted is a chapter that the Government wants to look at now. As we have seen, the entire country is affected by this problem. The last question was on the number of houses built for IDPs; how many are completed and how many are in the process of being built. The Ministry has provided the information. A total of 66,880 houses have been built; 2,502 permanent houses for Turkana IDPs are at various levels of completion; and, 2,400 low-cost houses for IDPs settled on Government procured land are programmed to be constructed, beginning this financial year. There is a summary of the various interventions and annexes, which give further details on the operations of the Government on the issue of the IDPs. In conclusion, I want to assure this House that the issue of IDPs is a serious national security problem that affects our national cohesion and future as a united country. The Jubilee Government will do whatever is within its power to ensure that we resolve this problem once and for all, as a basis of opening a new chapter for healing, reconciliation and rebuilding our country afresh, as we smart from the ashes of what happened to us eight years ago. Thank you for the opportunity to be of service to this House."
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