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"content": "in a modern age, members of a digital Government should not see the importance of the sanctity of a title deed. Even with this NLC, the active Charity Ngilu, ‘Mama Rainbow’ in office, they were still doing double registration of pieces of land and, therefore, setting up legal battles and physical battles amongst the various protagonists. At this time, we are witnessing State sponsored invasion of public land as we witnessed in Karen when leaders of this country invaded public property; something must truly be wrong. It was during that invasion that it was shortly followed by an attempt to annex a play ground at Langata Primary School, that we started hearing the real names of some leaders in this country. We thought we knew their names. It is when we heard that some of them are called “arap Mashamba” and “ arap Singh.” We cannot accept and we should not accept this. You know that day - and the teacher I respect most in this Senate, the Senator for Kirinyaga County, is listening to my debate. I almost demanded and I wanted it be done that the Government apologises for “tear-gassing” our children at Langata Primary School, but how wrong I was. The reason they refused to apologise to those children is because the worst was yet to come, to teargas them was nothing, they were waiting to close the schools, a total shut down so they did not have to apologise for such a small thing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to speak about the issue of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). These IDPs are the people who left their land because of the unfortunate PEV. To some extent, they have been settled. The ones who were integrated in their families in Kisii, Luoland and in Luhyaland are being forgotten. However, the ones who went into camps, we hear they have been compensated. The question now I want to ask the President and the Deputy President is: Where is the land that these people left? Who is this staying on somebody’s land that had been originally acquired legally? In fact, we expect the NLC in this Bill, to make a provision of how we can address those people who are afraid to go back to their land and instead accepted a paltry of Kshs400,000 and yet somebody had his five acres where he had kept three grade cows and he was earning a livelihood. If we do not go and repossess that land that was left by IDPs, we are promoting impunity and thuggery. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at this stage, I wish not to look like I am targeting only the national Government in terms of impunity. In the County Headquarters of Kakamega, we have no shortage of land; thanks to the fact that ‘grabiosis’, grabbing of public land - I am coining a word which I do not know if it is there in English. ‘ Grabiosis’ as a disease is not highly prevalent to certain communities in this country. Public land at Kakamega County Headquarters is still available and what do you find? None other than the Office of the Governor of Kakamega County has gone in the land set aside for expansion of the former provincial general hospital, Kakamega. They have annexed and they are putting up flats. We have complained to the NLC, but nothing is happening. The construction is going on. I want to say here and now; please, do not stop the construction of those flats. We want them to construct the flats, finish and because they are constructing on public land, using taxpayers’ money, which they grabbed because of their position in the county government, we shall go, not through legal means, but physically possess those flats and move in our doctors to start residing in them. That guy will never collect rent on those 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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