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    "id": 647215,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/647215/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "April 21, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 13 The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I come to that point, Sen. Haji asked about half-an-acre of land vis-à-vis Kshs10,000. All over the farming areas of Kenya today, you can hardly get an acre of land costing Kshs400,000. With Kshs400,000, you will only buy half-an-acre or so and you are a victim who was evicted from a developed 50 acres that you owned and you cannot go back to your land or access it. I also join you that we do not trivialize this very critical issue. I do not ask many questions in this House. The reason I brought this is because it is extremely important and it affects the whole country. For some of my colleagues to start talking that IDPs were paid Kshs10,000 by the Grand Coalition Government. That is completely going off target. IDPs are IDPs. We have IDPs who were occasioned in 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007, and they are Kenyans. We have not even mentioned some former colleagues who are occupying over 6,000 acres of land that was meant for settlement of IDPs. It is not even in Uasin Gishu but in Nyeri County. In furtherance of what my brother, Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki has said, I seek your indulgence and suggest that calling the Cabinet Secretary (CS) and his technocrats will not help. He will just come to read this Statement to us. If my brother agrees with me, I suggest that this House brings a Motion and we set up a Select Committee of this House to comprehensively investigate the matter of IDPs; their categorization; the levels of their losses and those who lost land, shops and all manner of things so that we give the report to the Government. The implementation Committee can then follow up and deal with this issue with finality. I am ready with my brother to bring a bipartisan Motion and set up a bipartisan committee that can then interrogate this matter fully. Where are these Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), why are they called Integrated? Why are others here? Why have some been settled and why have others not been settled? What about those who lost their shops, their businesses, and so on? This will bring this matter to a conclusion that we, as representatives of counties, protectors of the interests of counties and their governments can make a contribution.Then, the National Government and the county governments can participate in resettling IDPs once and for all."
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