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"content": "anybody to take care of them. So, I hope that this Committee will go a long way to ensure that the process is fast-tracked. Indeed, somebody has said that six months is a long time for the Committee to come up with the report which can be acted upon and I also agree with that speaker. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to just mention that as we try to resettle the IDPs, this House must also remember that there are 1,300 Kenyans who were killed. What have we done to the families who lost their loved ones during the post- election violence? Nobody has ever spoken for these people. We must speak for those who those who died. In Kericho, for example, we have got more than 250 people who were killed mainly by the police during the post-election violence. The Government has never come up with any policy or direction regarding compensation to those who lost their loved ones. Some of those people who died were breadwinners for their families, and we must also speak for them. So, as this Committee goes on with its work, we must think about the people who were killed and what to do with their families. Are we going to support their families in terms of education, shelter and everything else? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, many of the speakers have mentioned that as we try to resettle IDPs we also must do vetting of those who are in camps. As many have said, we must profile them. We must know, for example, how many of the people in camps had land and where it was. Therefore, their case is very simple. If they had land, then they will go back to their land and settle, because as we speak now, there is peace everywhere in the country. Therefore, those who had land must go back to their land. We must also have a solution for those who had businesses. We could help them with capital so that they can restart their businesses and, therefore, move on with their lives. We must also know how to address the plight of the squatters. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we do this, there are those IDPs who are as a result of post-election violence and those who were evicted from the Aberdares and Mau. Sometimes they are called Government displaced persons. All of them must be resettled so that they may continue with their lives like any other Kenyan. So, I would want the Committee to ensure that the process is comprehensive enough, so that everybody who is in the camps is resettled one way or the other. As we also try to look for where to settle them, I also want to urge the Government to ensure that before they resettle people, they consult the local leadership and communities of those areas, so that we do not antagonize communities again by resettling people without giving the rest information. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is the issue of the list which has been proposed. I do not doubt anybody in the list, but I would have expected that--- Even in the wake of the new Constitution, this list does not even meet the threshold of gender balance in terms of the numbers. We have four women out of 15 hon. Members. I would have expected a minimum of five so that we meet the threshold. Secondly, I would have also expected that we have representation from the areas where post-election violence took place and where IDPs are. This is because they understand the problem. I would have expected representation from hon. Members from Eldoret, the larger Nakuru and Kisii regions because they understand this problem and they can help in solving it. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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