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    "id": 1001089,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1001089/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Koinange",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1775,
        "legal_name": "Paul Koinange",
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    "content": "The allegation that residents of Mathare Ward are living in fear cannot be ascertained, since the Kenya Police Service has not engaged them directly or issued eviction notices to them. We cannot confirm when the said residences started existing, but the land invasion happened in the 1990s. The Ministry of Lands can ascertain from documents in their possession. It is true that youth have been prevented from accessing the playing ground due to the following reasons: (i) The playing ground is an open space and is approximately five metres from the administration block and the main armoury. (ii) The resident youth had converted the open space as a hard drugs den. (iii) At night, the land was used by criminals to plan and coordinate criminal activities within the area. It is, therefore, our opinion that those who have encroached on the land should be given notice to vacate and forcefully ejected upon the expiry of the notice. The land belongs to the police and the same has been confirmed by the NLC. The land having been allocated in 1975 was not available for private allocation. Hence, all those settled on the land are in illegal occupation."
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