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    "speaker_name": "28 Tuesday, 30th November, 2010 Mr. Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute on this subject. First, I would like to congratulate the Chairperson of this particular Committee and the members for the good work they did. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the IDP issue in Kenya is really a condemnation on the Government of Kenya for its poor management of disasters and emergencies. What we are seeing here should not be happening in the 21st Century. Even though we may not know the root cause of the problems which have occurred in this country, there is no excuse whatsoever for subjecting Kenyans to impossible living situations now. I know for a fact and we know for a fact that Kenya has the capacity to respond to emergencies and situations like these. But we have left Kenyans to suffer in situations which should not really occur. I want to speak particularly on the issue of Mau evictees, people who were evicted and those who are sustaining themselves under the guise of saving the environment. Apparently, it seems that the ego of one man has really led Kenyans to suffer. As of now, these camps have over 30,000 people who are living in miserable conditions and fairly inaccessible to Government officers. It has been raining heavily as if God is showing us that the issue of drought is not a Mau issue, but of human beings from elsewhere who have been messing up with the situation. In the situation of the Mau evictees, I have said we have 30,000 people who are suffering. We have got very poor food delivery, very poor shelter and even the materials they have are not very good. In the last three weeks, we have had very little rain and I hope the Minister will have time to visit that particular area in the 11 camps which are there and see what is happening. Up to now, we are talking about facilitating these people by giving them land and that we are going to do that before Christmas. It is a tall order, Madam Minister, but we want to wish you well if you can manage to settle all these Kenyans in the next three weeks before the end of the year. We are concerned that health facilities do not exist at all. As of now, within the Mau evictees’ camps, we have lost 38 persons. Out of these, there are children under 15, four adults who are under 35 and over 14 people who are over 56 years. This is really unacceptable. Why should we not address the issues which are making our people suffer? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee has made some very good recommendations which I would like to support. I would like to congratulate again the Chairperson for even finding the strength and energy to go to inaccessible areas of Mau to see these Kenyans. Once again, I want to urge that Kenya puts into practice its disaster management policy. It is not enough to come out with fantastic and beautiful policies which are not implemented. We would like to request that this is done under one Ministry so that one person is responsible. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Report."
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