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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Odhiambo",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred Bwire Odhiambo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in doing that, the Committee visited the three camps which I have already mentioned. We did that because we wanted to find out what was happening to the IDPs who are in those camps. It has even come up here just a few minutes ago, that some of the IDPs were planning to make a protest walk all the way from Gilgil to Nairobi because they are not being catered for by the Government adequately. The Committee, before visiting those camps, deliberated with the concerned Ministry which is the Ministry of State for Special Programmes and we, therefore, had their permission to conduct those visits. Even officers of the Ministry accompanied us. While there, there are so many things that we noticed were taking place. The Report, of course, is very long but we will highlight some of the activities or issues that we think should be brought to the attention of this House. First, we want to say what the Government has done in order to address the situation affecting IDPs. The Government has set up a national humanitarian fund which has been used to assist some of the affected Post-Election Violence (PEV) IDPs. Having done that, some of the IDPs have already been assisted in various ways. Some have been given money. Some have also been counseled. Others have been assisted to go back to their original homes and farms through negotiations. Some have been assisted to use the money that they were being given by the Government to resettle. So far, we found that the Ministry of State for Special Programmes undertook this exercise of profiling the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). It had already spent Kshs53 million to make an accurate list of the IDPs that we have. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, after analyzing the figures, we found out that about 140,459 households were affected. This gave a total figure of 663,921 people who were displaced in the Post-Election Violence (PEV). The highest number of households was found in the Rift Valley. It had 84,947 households. The total number affected in the Rift Valley was 408,631 people. The numbers in other provinces are not as high as those in the Rift Valley. On May 5th 2008, the Government launched Operation Rudi Nyumbani which was aimed at the IDPs going back to their respective homes. So far, 350,000 IDPs have voluntarily returned to their farms and have settled. Most of the IDP camps in other places like Nakuru, Naivasha, Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia have actually closed down. However, we still have some IDPs at Mai Mahiu and Gilgil. These are mainly IDPs who have not been assisted by the Government as was pledged. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at Mai Mahiu, there are 798 households, giving a total of about 5,000 people. At Gilgil, we found about 800 people who have not"
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