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    "id": 1114934,
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    "content": "Additionally, they claimed that their ancestors are buried on the parcel of land. The land was later converted to become part of the Kikambala Settlement Scheme for purposes of settling squatters residing thereon but, unbeknown to the Petitioners, Francis Kinuthia was irregularly allocated the parcel of land in unclear circumstances and later sold it to the Railway Housing Co- operative Society in April 2006. The Petitioners aver that the fact that the Railway Housing Co-operative Society has for over 15 years never attempted to develop the said parcel of land confirms that its management is fully aware that the land legally belong to the residents of Kwa Kadzengo Village currently residing on it. However, the management of the Society is said to be currently using illegal unorthodox avenues in attempts to evict residents from the land such as resorting to harassment, threats, brutal force and a host of other inhumane treatments. The Petitioners, who constitute over 100 households comprised of about 600 men, women, children and the elderly, now risk being unjustly and illegally evicted out of the land that has been their home for over 50 years, thereby condemning them to an anticipated life of homelessness, poverty and misery. It is on account of that concern that they seek the intervention of the House in urgently intervening to forestall the impeding eviction, the investigation into the circumstances by which the Railway Housing Corporation Society ostensibly purchased the land despite knowing that its"
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