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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of labour relations is a very big area. So are national manpower development and the promotion of micro and small enterprises. These issues we need to revisit, as a Committee. The issue of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is one of the aspects we need time, as a Committee, to be able to address, leave alone the issues of gender, social development and mainstreaming, women affairs and development, Women Enterprise Fund, coalition of volunteer services, social welfare and vulnerable groups like the IDPs. As a Committee, we went to assess the condition and the status of people living in IDP camps. While we were not able to visit all the IDP camps, what comes in mind is that the Government has done quite a bit. It has provided money to profile the IDPs. However, this was done for only some of them, when the money was available. The Government had only Kshs23 million to do the profiling. Thereafter, more people streamed into the IDP camps, because of the problems they were facing. For example, the people in the IDP camp in Gilgil are the urban poor. After they discovered that people were being re-settled, they moved into the camp from Nakuru and the towns surrounding Gilgil area, as well as from Nairobi. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one admirable thing about these people is that even without the money, they were able to--- They received only Kshs10,000 each instead of the Kshs25,000 they were supposed to receive. With that little money, they joined into groups and built houses for themselves. They were also able to grow food. They are almost self-sufficient. So, the Government should meet its pledge of allocating to each of all those IDPs 2.05 acres of land it promised them, because they can take care of themselves. The Government need not spend money feeding those people. These people are capable of feeding themselves. That is what we found in the camps. If the Government can spend whatever money it has to allocate those people land, they will be able to take care of their families. Some of them have very big families, but all families are given the same amount of food. Therefore, children do not get enough food nutrients to enable them survive. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another issue is that of education. Since these people have been displaced from their original environment, they are crowding in the schools around where they live. So, this is an issue which the Government needs to address by putting up schools, dispensaries and health centres within the IDP camps so as to provide them with decent living. We also found that within Central Province, for instance, a many of the IDPs live with their families and thus, over-stretching the resources of those families. The IDPs living with their families have not been given any support by the Government. This is an area where the Government needs to profile those people, so that they can be assisted to either go back to their farms or be able to get for themselves accommodation and means of livelihood. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the recommendations which the Committee came up with talks about requesting the Government to provide, for now, reasonable amount of food, depending on individual family size. So, as opposed to giving food based on household, it should be based on the family size, so that they can get adequate food to eat."
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