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    "speaker_name": "27 Wednesday, 10th November, 2010(A) Mr. Mureithi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion because it really touches my heart. If there is one constituency in this country that is on the receiving end, it is Ol Kalou Constituency. Out of all the IDPs who were displaced in 2008, I have got 37,000. It has become a very major problem three years down the line. Those people are still living in tents that they were given in 2008. As I speak now, one camp has still got 2,600 families. There are hundreds and hundreds of children there. The school they are supposed to attend had a population of 230 children. When the IDPs came, the school now accommodates 2,700 children. I got some money from the Ministry of Education, but that did not solve the problem. So, the Select Committee should look at the issues in all dimensions. I had a privilege to join Prof. Kamar in Eldoret East when we went to flag off people to go back to mashambani. You could see the joy between the communities. When we went there, we were able to give them time to discuss. They discussed amongst themselves and finally, we flagged them off. I think if there is determination by the Government--- I have no doubt that our current Minister, Ms. Mathenge Murugi, has the capacity and ability to achieve the deadline that she was given; that by December, those people should be settled. But I would like to agree with the hon. Member who has said that prior to that, there should be discussions with the communities where those people are going to be settled so that there is complete integration. With these rains, you can imagine all the toilets that they have been given are full. In some areas, all the water they have been taking has been contaminated. So, we are likely to have another crisis with the emergence of dangerous diseases like cholera, typhoid and all other water borne diseases. Right now, the children and other members of the public do not have clean water to use. So, they are exposed to skin diseases. When I talk about IDPs, I am not talking only about IDPs who were displaced in 2008. We have IDPs who were evicted from Mau. There are IDPs who were evicted from Mt. Kenya and Aberdares and who are living by the roadside. I would like to say that there must be seriousness with the Government because a lot of money has been voted for the IDPs, and I hope the Committee will also go into the details and see how that money has been utilized. There was Kshs100 million mobilization money every year. Who took the mobilization money? There has been a lot of food that has been donated. We know quite a lot of that food has not ended up with the IDPs. So, what should we do to empower this Committee to come up with a proposal that will compel the Government to settle its own people? If you come to my constituency, I will take you to Mawingu. You will not be able to know whether you are in an IDP camp or a refugee camp. What we see in North Eastern Province - the people who come from Somalia – is exactly what I have in Ol Kalou Constituency. I would imagine that if you go to the boundaries of Mau, you will still have the same problem. I would like to say that what is now going on - and I know Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker knows that very well – is the psychological trauma being experienced by the old and children. We do not know the views of those hundreds of children who are going to grow up and become mature about their own country. There is one boy who has sang a song that when he was born, he thought he would grow up in a normal community. But, today, he lives as a refugee. He is almost producing that CD and that is the anger that those children are growing up with."
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