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    "id": 842420,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ekal",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13226,
        "legal_name": "Malachy Charles Ekal Imana",
        "slug": "malachy-charles-ekal-imana"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the topic of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) is a really sad story in Kenya. While overseas, I watched Kenyans chasing and slaughtering each other with pangas on matters of election and democracy. It was appalling. The end result of that is the fact that we have the IDPs. Having IDPs in their own country is just hard to understand. How could people be displaced in their country when the Constitution says that Kenyans can live anywhere in the country? If there is such a Constitution, how could people have been displaced? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the idea of displacement came with a lot of robbery. Many of those people lost their property, homes and farms. They were sent back to the counties from which they came. This in itself is an affirmation of tribalism; that if you belong to the Kikuyu tribe, for example, you should always be in those regions that are supposed to be for the Kikuyu. If one is from Marsabit or Turkana counties, they should stay there. That is not the Kenya we want to see. We want to see a Kenya where Kenyans can live where they please. Even though we say that money was to settle IDPs, even giving that money alone was not enough. There should have been some investigation; to find out where those people lived before, the kind of property they had and what they lost. That would have been good because they would have reclaimed the property they used to have before being displaced. I know many IDPs within Turkana County who are living in terrible conditions. They were put in a hostile part of the county without water, food or any form of support. In fact, those structures were built so badly that nobody would be able to live there. If you drive to a place called Lokori, before you get to the town, you will find the structures for IDPs that were built. Those structures do not harbour anybody; they are just lying there and disintegrating. That means that the money that was allotted for settling The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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