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    "id": 1061554,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenya the Electricity Transmission Company Ltd. (KETRACO) is having serious problems because farmers are not allowing them to go through their land. People stand there and say, “No, you cannot do this.” That is just one institution. The people say that there is no public participation and no compensation. Now we are talking about a Government entity. These citizens are going to the assembly to seek redress there and they are not able to get anything. Their plight is not heard. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Senate must come up and resolve this matter. I hope that this is not just going to be the regular things that we do here. We hear the matter for 60 days then give the petitioner a response. I think that the most important thing is, what are we going to do to solve this problem? We must take the issue of Petitions seriously. It should not just be written in the law that every Kenyan has the right to come in. However, when they petition this Senate, we deal with the mattrr in a very casual way. Yet we know that when they came here, they came here because they believed that the buck stops here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support that Petition of the residents of Mombasa, and I hope that even the County Government of Mombasa will sit down. I call upon my friend, Governor Joho, to sit down with the assembly and look at the people who say that there is no public participation. Involve them, compensate them and let people live. These are very hard times. We are going through a pandemic, we are leaving people out there homeless, and we say that we are leaders. We are not. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Petition. I hope that things will be done differently than we are used to doing them."
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