Nelson Ributhi Gaichuhie

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• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: them actually wanted to do business. They have been taken through training on how they can do business. Some of them are even getting more loans using the Kshs400,000 as collateral. So, the Government is alive to the matter. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Kaluma wanted to know how much money has been spent on IDPs. That is a tough question. I am not able to answer right now. I need to get the facts from the Treasury. However, I can assure this House that the Government has spent billions of shillings on re-settlement. It has bought quite a number of pieces of land and given the Kshs400,000 to quite a number of people. So, the Government has so far spent billions of shillings on the matter, and it is never ending. view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Washiali wanted to know if those people can come with title deeds to prove that they were settled somewhere. Not all IDPs who were in camps or other places have title deeds for their property. It is a known fact that we do not have title deeds in many parts of Kenya. Some of them have title deeds. Very few of them have not been able to go back to where they were living. But I can tell you that most of the IDPs were business people in major towns. That is why the Government has decided that rather ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me address hon. Gumbo’s issue because I think we are still talking about integrated IDPs. We have two sets of IDPs. There were IDPs in camps; that is, those who moved and stayed together in a camp. Then there are those people who went and stayed with their relatives or migrated elsewhere. Those are the Integrated IDPs. The Government decided to first deal with those one in camps. They are the ones the Government has been trying to compensate by way of buying land or currently paying them KShs400,000. That is what the ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: So, it is upon us as a House and also the Government to ensure that we give enough money to compensate IDPs. It is a complex matter. Had we talked of Integrated IDPs and squatters--- Some of us are even mistaking squatters for IDPs. There is a category of squatters and there is a category of IDPs. When hon. Lentoimaga says that there are people who were pushed out of a forest, those were squatters in forest and not IDPs. That is because nobody owns a forest. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: Those are people who were squatting in a forest and the Jubilee Government is alive to the matter. Actually, we have seen title deeds being issued. I think they have started in the right way of resettling--- In fact, it is settling and not resettling because they have never been settled. The Government is trying to settle squatters. I wish the Leader of the Majority Party was around so that he knows that we have so many squatters in this country and that the Government will actually settle them. Hon. Bishop asked: How do NGOs interfere? We have NGOs who ... view
• 6 Nov 2013 in National Assembly: I am winding up. Hon. Kipsang asked the same thing about Integrated IDPs and the squatters. The Government will think about those ones. About discrimination, I do not think there is any discrimination. About the resettlement, it started soon after the post-election violence. That is why those ones in the past were not compensated. Hon. Gikaria has asked about Donga Farm. That farm is in my constituency. It is a case in which the Government has given out money, but they have not paid the owners. They went out there and took IDPs from Gilgil and Nakuru. However, because of ... view
• 24 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I seek your indulgence that you give us a week to finalise this Bill. The Committee is still looking at the Bill and we have not finalized the Report. We are requesting that you give us a week or so before this Order appears on the Order Paper so that we can finalise a few issues and have a report tabled in the House. view
• 24 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Yes, hon. Speaker, Sir. We have been having very many Bills on our table. Yesterday, we concluded one on insurance so we do not want to give this House a raw deal. We want to make sure that everything that we present to the House is very comprehensive. With an additional one week, I am sure we will come with a very comprehensive Bill because we need to amend a few things here and there in the same Bill. view
• 17 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: The Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. view