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    "content": "We have spent billions of shillings and these are on the records that have been brought to this House at various times which indicate that so far about Kshs24 billion or Kshs25 billion has been spent on the resettlement of the so-called Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). However, as we sit here, there is a group out there at the gate, shouting haki yetu . They are claiming that they have not been looked after because of those conflicts. You can pay families money, but does that create peace? Looking at the case of the people who fled from Burnt Forest, Eldoret, Naivasha and if we are, indeed, interested in building peace in the country, when their houses were burnt and their possessions taken, does that mean that their parcels of land were burnt as well? Why is the State not making it possible for people to go back to the land that they bought, invested in and toiled on for years instead of this cosmetic thing of giving people money with no capacity building as to how they will put that money to good use? We have had cases of men running away from their families, getting young women and going to towns where they “blow away” the money they had been given, then going back to the camps and start demanding to be given more money. Why? I called Hon. Kaparo when he released a report about employment in the counties and told him that he had said something which was half sensible for a change since he went into the office. What is going on in the counties is undermining the tranquility and integrity of our country. Devolution was never meant to create the fiefdoms that we are seeing. If you come to my county, anybody who picks a job from the County Government of Bungoma must have subscribed to the party that has now been dissolved called New FORD-(K). If not, you do not get a job. This is true of many other places. Governors have even introduced clannism. In some counties, if you are not related to the governor, his wife, brother or his relative, then hautapa kitu . Exclusion in history has been known to breed resentment, which has been known to breed rebellion, which will ultimately breed conflict. It is that kind of process that consumed countries such as Yugoslavia after the death of Broz Tito. It is the same thing that is consuming Syria and many other countries. Uganda at one time went through the same way. Somalia is a failed State because of lack of social justice. I told Hon. Kaparo to move to the national level since he had talked about what is happening in the counties. I also told him that it is not enough to say that Kirinyaga is leading in employing people from the same tribe. If you go to the counties, you may find that even though they have employed people of the same tribe in that area, there is still discrimination. This is because they move from the community to the clans, from clans to political persuasion, from political persuasion to class and then to something else. If you look at the Cabinet today as it is constituted, you will be told that so-and-so who is in the Cabinet was in St. Mary’s with the President. This is also discrimination and the Kaparo Commission is busy concerned with petty things such as arresting MPs and locking them up when the real problems are out there. We are in the fourth year. Could Mr. Kaparo and his group carry out a national audit in counties to see whether since devolution arrived, there has been any social transformation on the lives of the people? There is discrimination starting from allocation of resources. However, in a county that has received in three years, more money than it ever received since independence, you find that a hotel is being built by the governor, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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