Nelson Ributhi Gaichuhie

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, the Statement on the resettlement of IDPs is the same as the first one I read out. The Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade invited the Cabinet Secretary and Njenga Kigo on 29th December. We deliberated on the matter and out of the meeting the Statement reads as follows. During the 1991/1992 tribal clashes, some people were displaced from various parts of Rift Valley such as Njoro, Enoosupukia and Elburgon. The group illegally invaded Kieni Forest on the slopes of the Abedare Ranges. To avoid the destruction of Kieni Forest, the households were evicted from the ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Okay. The people who went to the Abedare Ranges were evicted. They became forest evictees. So, question number one was resettlement of Kieni 805 forest evictees. The Government has resettled all the 805 Kieni Forest evictees through a cash payment programme. Each of the households was paid Kshs400,000 and a total Kshs322 million was paid out to the households. Camps were closed and the forest evictees moved out. The second question was on integrated IDPs of 2007/2008. The Government has continued to pay start-up capital of Kshs10,000 to all displaced persons. A total of 140,459 households were targeted. Currently, there ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Wafula and hon. Wakhungu raised the same issue. They are talking about the fake IDPs in that list. As I was saying, one of the challenges that we faced on the profiling of the IDPs is that we have quite a number of people who claim to be IDPs, but are fake IDPs. The Government is alive to the matter. In that list from Trans Nzoia, there were four teachers who were included in the list, but they were not paid. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: We are alive to the fact that there could be more IDPs who are fake. The Government has said that it is going to do an indepth investigation and find out if there are fake IDPs who have been paid. If we find any, we have so many institutions that will deal with them. That is all about the fake IDPs. Hon. Njenga Kigo raised the issue of the integrated IDPs. I also want to answer part of hon. Pukose’s concern in terms of how many integrated IDPs have not been paid. According to our profiling, we have 62,784 families ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: The profiling of the IDPs is done by the DCs. We have said that we are not opening a new register and all those who were profiled in June/July, 2008, form the final list. We know we have people who are in Uganda and others who are displaced all over the world, but if they did not come for the profiling, we do not know them. That is a fact. It was announced all over that anybody who feels that he is an IDP should see the DCs, or report to the nearest administrative post for profiling. That is why ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: About what we are going to do about the integrated IDPs, the Government has said that it can only pay Kshs10,000. We know that it is not enough, but we cannot compensate for pain. We only want to give them a start-up capital of Kshs10,000. This can only be done if this House, in its wisdom, gives the Treasury a budget that is enough to resettle the 62,784 households. Those are the only IDPs that we know currently. In my Statement, I said that we are not ready to open any new register. The electronic version of the Official Hansard ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Hon. Keter wanted to know when we will close the IDP camps, or how soon we will close camps once we pay off IDPs. Camps are supposed to be closed immediately. But you will notice that immediately people were paid, some moved out and others moved in. What the Government has said is that, it will only take care of those that are in the register. So, once a piece of land is left vacant--- The people you see in camps are now not IDPs. The Government is referring to them as people ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: all paid Kshs400,000, though we know that there were a few fake people on the list. I said that the clean-up is still on-going. About the integrated IDPs, the Government because of funds--- I want to say that we have IDPs who have been there since time immemorial. Some hon. Member is talking of 1971/1972; 1991/1992 et cetera . It was only until 2008 when the former President, hon. Kibaki, said he was going to work on how to resettle IDPs. Before then, nobody used to talk about the IDPs. Therefore, I know there are so many people, and that ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I was responding to the issue raised by hon. Mulu, I was saying that the Government is not actually forcing the people who have been given the Kshs400,000 to buy land. With Kshs400,000, you can start a livelihood. If you are a farmer, you can buy a piece of land. If you want to start a business, you can do so. That is why the Government decided that rather wait until we get land, we give people Kshs400,000, so that they can have a new beginning. So, it is not a must that they buy ... view