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    "id": 1044884,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": " Madam Deputy Speaker, I commend the Senator for Kisumu County for bringing up this matter. I hope at the end of it, this matter will be referred to the relevant Committee for proper consideration and recommendations brought to this House. What makes me feel terrible about this issue is that the forceful eviction is illegal. Even if you trespass in somebody’s land, they cannot just begin beating you up! You have to follow due process. The law recognises public land. There is a procedure that they must follow. Since the enactment of the Constitution 2010, the principle that should guide all public agencies all the time is that public land does not necessarily belong to the Government agencies for their own good. It also belongs for the good of the people. If the people are meant to suffer the way I saw families spending nights in the cold in Kibos and Muhoroni and along that line--- I heard that the operation will go to Malaba and other places. Over the years, the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) has been handing over public land to cartels and people who want to make money out of public land. They have not taken any steps to recover those pieces of land. Instead, they are concentrating on ordinary people. What the Government and those agencies are trying to tell us is that when rights and privileges are involved, the law is there only to protect the mighty but to oppress the poor people of this land. Some 20 years ago, I took part in a harambee to build a church in Koru. That was a beautiful church where the honourable Member for Kabondo comes from. I think that is where she was born. The mother was a very religious person. That church which has been on that ground for more than 50 years has been brought down. How do you bring down a mosque for whatever reason? At the end of the day, you should have the decency of going before a court of law for a determination to be made. This is because many times the Government has also trespassed on individual property and nobody has been brought to account."
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