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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "Mr. Konchella also talked about the task force recommendations. The task force was set up after a consultative meeting that the Government held with all the stakeholders in the Mau Complex. The task force spent quite a bit of time moving around to consult the affected people. Thereafter they prepared a report and submitted it. The hon. Member has tabled the report. However, for his information that report was tabled in this House debated and approved by the House. Thereafter the Government set up a Secretariat to implement the recommendations contained in that task force report. That is what we are doing right now. If you read the task force report, it actually recommends that the project be implemented in phases; Phase I, Phase II, Phase III, Phase IV and Phase V, because we are dealing with a very huge complex. These are 20 different forests and very many families are involved. Because of that, this is not an exercise that can be done overnight. It has to be done systematically, methodically and resources must also be available. This is what the Government is doing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Koech asked whether money is available. I have said, yes, the Government has allocated money for the purpose of resettlement. Let me be very clear about this issue of money because allegations have been made outside the House that some money has been made available from sometimes last year and that the Minister for Lands has been “sitting” on money which was meant for resettlement of the people of Mau. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those allegations are made by an hon. Member who himself was a trustee of the Resettlement Fund. That hon. Member, together with the Minister for Lands and the Minister for Finance were the trustees, and they held a meeting with the President regarding this issue of resettlement of the people in Mau, following which correspondence was initiated to try to get funds for the settlement. That hon. Member is very much aware that no money was made available for the resettlement of these people in the last financial year."
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