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    "id": 1007123,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1007123/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
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        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this Petition. About 1,700 individuals have been affected. The Petition has been brought here as a result of a deliberate pronouncement made by the Cabinet Secretary, Environment. A big number of these individuals are civil servants. These middle cadre civil servants have taken loans and others used their retirement benefits to acquire shelter in the city. The number of the affected households is enormous. These individuals bought land and were working on the fact that these were legally acquired titles. They bought land from individuals. The Gazette Notice No.44 of 1998 is a Government document that authorised excision of that land for private developers. The 1,700 individuals did due diligence while constructing these houses for their families. If we allow the destruction as pronounced by the CS on this matter, it will be an affront to the rights of these individuals. It will be an affront to the United Nations (UN) resolution to provide shelter for those individuals, particularly middle-class citizens. I want to urge the Committee to do due diligence on how these persons acquired land there and the efforts undertaken by those individuals to get shelter in the city. Most of the individuals who stay there are my constituents. I sat with them during the weekend and they were already preparing a Petition. I am glad that the Member for Lang’ata has brought a Petition on their behalf. I want to urge the Committee to look at this matter critically, so that individuals housed there are not disadvantaged. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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