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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the issue of refugees and the challenge of the host community. The Report says that the refugees, even as they are refugees in the areas where they are based, they are getting services good enough, and that the national Government of Kenya cannot even provide similar services to the residents of that area who are in the neighborhood. The refugees have schools, piped water; they have boreholes, yet in the neighborhood, we have Kenyans who are just watching from a distance and seeing the refugees living in relative comfort. Then, there is a temptation to go in and become a refugee. I was, at one time, in Turkana during the Eight Parliament. When we were being briefed by the head of the parish centre there; a certain religious leader there, he told us that a Turkana approached him and told him: âFather, how can I become a refugee?â This is because the boy lives in the neighborhood of a camp which has piped water, electricity from a generator, they are getting food and the boy is outside there with no access to the same facilities. Yes, he is a Kenyan, but the Sudanese and Somalis who are based there are getting the services of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). We must compel the UNHCR to make sure that there is sufficient compensation. We are compassionate as a country and we welcome the refugees because they are in trouble. But the UNHCR â that is where the policy fails â must be told that if they want to set up a camp in an area, they must be able to give support to the people who live in the neighborhood."
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