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    "content": "have the Kshs3 billion that was meant for the previous two years, and another Kshs3 billion for this year given to this able Minister, so that she can go and sort out that issue in the morning. We are being told stories about the Minister for Lands. In the meantime, these people are getting agitated. They are getting worked up. Even if they are not worked up, what justification do we have, sitting in this august House for the last three years, and just looking at that ugly scene? Things that were caused by politicking by ourselves; things that led to that serious bloodshed, things that have led to families being born in captivity and things that have led to serious trauma by a big proportion of IDPs. I agree with the comments made by one of the Members here. I agree again that actually the Government can take care of the IDPs. The Government has the power. The Government is doing very many good projects. Does it find it hard in the budgets, security and management to make it possible for the IDPs to be resettled? The Minister of State for Special Programmes can wake up in the morning and get two acres somewhere in Meru, one acre in Kilifi if it so deserves so that, that old lady who is going to die in another two or three weeks can be settled. Why is it so difficult to do that? Why does it become such a problem that the Budget meant for that purpose - settling IDPs - is treated as if it was something like cashew nuts, which somebody puts in the pocket? Those people are said to enjoy high profile offices. I do not understand why the Government is so indifferent. Why does it think that some people were born of a lesser God just to sit there, suffer and continue suffering? Most, importantly, why do all of them come to Naivasha which has no resources? Even the District Commissioner, who is supposed to do normal policy through the District Security Committee, has no specific provision for that big group of people now numbering nearly 20,000. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we reflect on this Report, my view and that of Naivasha people is that it is just a loud whistle from Parliament telling the Government to wake from its slumber. Just forget about your Cabinet meetings; just forget about your 40 Ministries and sort out the problem. The problem is there. We have children born of people who were there and who owned property. Tonight, they are sleeping in flooded areas, particularly in Kikopey. Those people are dying. You go there and you do not want to go back there the same day. Recently, I persuaded them when they were doing a protest match to come to Nairobi to be heard. Do we have to wait until another dying lot starts to protest to Nairobi? Those are old people. Some of them are over 60 years. They had marched all the way to Kinungi coming to tell the Minister that they are suffering. The suffering of the IDPs is now well documented. I am persuading this House; let us not give this problem a deaf year, like they did to Mau Mau. We stood here and passed a very serious resolution on Mau Mau, but the same Government decided to ignore it. The other day, I saw the Minister for Lands, whom I admire very much, say that if we do not sort out certain issues, which have to do with boundaries, he is prepared to go to the streets and do the matching. That was in the media. I also witnessed it when we were in Western Province over the weekend. The Minister for Lands knows all the land that was stolen from the Government. The Minister for Lands knows that this House resolved to settle the Mau Mau people, but he wants us to go to the streets and match to cause the same Government he is in to take some kind of action. I find this whole thing totally out of order. For us to keep coming here and debating, while a Minister is holding Kshs3 billion which is meant for buying land for some IDPs--- Let it be even half a billion or Kshs100,000. Why are we making it academics? If this Ministry has been designated as the Ministry of State for"
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