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    "content": "Last year, the Government issued a statement that they were paying the last batches of IDPs who were allocated land somewhere in the rift valley and that there were not going to be anymore payments or any IDP claims. You may recall, on the Floor of this House, it was said that Kshs25 billion had been spent ostensibly to settle IDPs. However, it appears that the management, identification, payment and anything to do with IDPs has become a gravy train. We have fake IDPs and phony claims. The Government owned up and said that there are people who are paid to leave the camps but they go back and erect structures made of polythene sheets and cartons and claim to be IDPs. We cannot be a country where every other day we play the same song like a stuck gramophone record. We must resolve this. This gives this House – as the defender and protector of counties, their people and their governments – an opportunity to deal not only with matters of Kibra but also the matters of Mau Forest, the IDPs of Mt. Elgon, Trans Nzoia, the Coast, Embobut Forest and everywhere. As I finish, history tells us that when you give the IDPs or the so-called IDPs money, you are not solving a problem. If it is settling people, the Government should identify land, buy and demarcate it, create title deeds and settle people, so that those who will dispose of the land and go and erect polythene papers and cardboards around markets can be dealt with in accordance with the law. I beg to support."
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