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    "content": "The recommendations that we made include that the Ministry of State for Special Programmes should consider the size of the families while giving food, so that the large families can be given more food than the small ones. The Government should quicken the process of acquiring and allocating the two and a quarter acres of land to the IDPs to enable them to engage in economic activities, so that they can stop depending on the Government for their daily needs. We visited another place which is different from the Post-Election Violence camps. We visited Kurbanyat, which is a camp for people who were displaced from the Mau Forest for purposes of environmental conservation. We visited Kurbanyat because it is the only place we could access. Otherwise, there is Kurbanyat, Kapkembo, Kipkonyor, Chepkopruto, Kipkoris, Kiritar and Kusimek. Kurbanyat has 164 people, Kapkembo has 2,850 people, Kipkonyor has 3,074 people, Chepkopruto has 1,196 people, Kipkoris has 820, Tiritar has 939 people and Kusumek has 2,874 people. In total, the people who were displaced from the Mau Forest were 11,917. It was very difficult to reach Kurbanyat even with Four Wheel Drive Vehicles. We really had to struggle to get there. The conditions under which these people live are dehumanizing. They are very bad, indeed. The tents are not enough. You find a family of ten people squeezed in one tent. The conditions are pathetic. These are very genuine people with some of them as old as 90 years unlike at Mai Mahiu where you could see young people and you could suspect that some of them are not genuine IDPs because they could have been just hawkers. At Kurbanyat, the people cannot do any farming because there are no farms at all. We were told that Kurbanyat is one of the small camps, but we could not access the big ones. That camp has only 164 people, but there are others with as many as 2,850 people. Those people are really in a very bad state. The Government must do something to help them. By the time we arrived there, about four people had died. On the day we arrived there, some people were very sick and we even had to contribute some money among ourselves, so that they could be taken to hospital. The Ministry officials gave us a lot of support. They were with us throughout and they really helped us. They gave us some information which we did not have. The people at Kurbanyat preferred to be called Government Displaced Persons (GDP) rather than IDPs. We talked to them and promised that we were coming to talk to our colleagues in Parliament and the Minister concerned, so that they would be considered and given alternative land where they could settle and continue with their normal livelihoods. Because of time, I beg to move and call upon Mr. Konchella to second this very important Motion."
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