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    "speaker_name": "Saboti, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caleb Amisi",
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        "legal_name": "Caleb Amisi Luyai",
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    "content": "business people coming in and were not committed to the purpose of the Fund. Therefore, we left a lot of gaps in establishing the real beneficiaries. The first thing was to establish the real beneficiaries because the list that came up was full of people who had unscrupulously colluded with each other and with the officers in charge. We left out many genuine people especially in Saboti. They keep knocking at our doors in Saboti and other constituencies and Trans Nzoia. I think going forward, we need a new team to go there and establish the genuine people who were supposed to benefit from this Fund, so that we can have a new list or annexure to the already existing list of the people who are out in the cold, but are genuine and are well known by the community as IDPs. We have administrators like chiefs and sub-chiefs who can help us to identify them. Even local residents can help us to identify the people who have nowhere to go. My constituency happens to be at the epicentre of this imbroglio, especially because the land issue has been perennial. There are a lot of landless people and those who need their land to be documented and be given title deeds. On several occasions, I have met the Cabinet Secretary for Lands to try and sort out the issue of people who are continuously displaced from the neighbouring land that is gazetted as a forest and which was not previously a forest. We have problems at Kitalale, Ex-sorenzon and Muroki. It is almost everywhere. In the entire constituency, the people who have title deeds are countable. So, it is a very big problem that affects us as leaders. We know the Report of this Committee is going to be the beginning of a permanent solution to our people. They also deserve a living like the rest. I support the recommendation that the DCI should intervene and look into the accounting materials and financial statements that were never submitted or the missing financial statements. This is clearly stated by the Committee. How do we have such an amount of money with accounting officers who cannot keep records properly? So, these are recommendations that need to be acted upon. Let us not have the wonderful job by the Committee going onto the shelves. We need this Committee to be proud that their Report led to the settlement of individuals. For the good work of the Committee, we will do them a great service if we make sure that the DCI, as recommended, swings into action immediately. The PSs in charge of Planning, Lands and the CS for Lands should jump in. There is some level of laxity at the Ministry of Lands. We keep procrastinating matters to do with land. People fear handling these matters head on. We keep procrastinating. My constituency has several historical land cases. Every minister keeps procrastinating. Whenever we appear before the Committee and the CS authoritatively commits to resettle people, she never does that. I think we need to rein in on the Ministry of Lands. We cannot keep coming before the Departmental Committee on Lands, assure our people that we are going to resettle them and then two or three years down the line, this does not happen. We need a lot of seriousness at the Ministry of Lands. We should not keep procrastinating issues of land. These are very emotive issues that can be explosive in terms of security. When people are constantly in collision on matters of land, it is a source of insecurity not only to the locals, but also to the entire nation. We demand, as Members, that with the good work the DCI is doing on corruption, they should step in and arrest those who were given the responsibility of accounting for the special funds, but never did it. These are people who dipped their fingers into the funds that were supposed to settle IDPs. We need to see people being arrested and brought to book, so that the real IDPs are resettled and we get relieved of the problem of people knocking at our doors every morning. It is very unfortunate to have elderly people living in shelters. These are people who had lived well the rest of their lives but are displaced at their prime age and have nowhere to go. They have to come to your home. As a leader, you keep assuring them, but you have no land to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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