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    "id": 1033965,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1033965/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Konoin, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Leonard Yegon",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13391,
        "legal_name": "Yegon Brighton Leonard",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The response is not satisfactory. It is actually fake. We are not opposed to decongesting of traffic in Nairobi or improvement of travel time and flow of vehicles. My issue was that the steps and procedures that were used during the eviction of tenants who already paid for the lease of that particular place in Lunar Park were not proper. It is evident from the first answer that no valuation of properties was done. When you look at the third answer, where they are saying that the Government had not set aside resources for compensation as no property was destroyed, that answer is actually fake. Properties worth millions of shillings were destroyed in the morning of 16th September 2020. There were more than 1,000 people who were doing business at Lunar Park. The people who had occupied Lunar Park had lease for a period of nine years, but they were not compensated. They were only given eight hours to vacate, and the eight hours’ deadline that they were given commenced in the evening. They had to take away their vehicles during that evening. Most of the businesses were car dealers. There were no yearly leases running, so, those people need to be compensated for the nine-year lease. There were also investments in terms of security, cabro paving blocks, fences, among other properties that they had put in place. So, I am not satisfied with the answer and I feel that the people who had paid for the lease of the place need to get proper compensation for the investments that they had put in place at the Lunar Park area."
}