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    "id": 1124495,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker Sir, the people of Embu should know that they are blessed to have Sen. Njeru Ndwiga. I thank him for bringing this Petition. The Bible says in the book of James that true religion is taking care of widows and orphans at the time of need. This is a Statement that we must all support so that we get proper resolutions from the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources. As the delegation from Gambia leaves, I officially welcome them to Nairobi as the Senator for Nairobi City County. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it does not make sense how an organization that has run this institution from pre-independence towards the independence period and after, can get their status revoked for an organization that has never, at any one point, taken care of these children or had anything to do with that land. That needs to be resolved very quickly. I want to add onto and echo the sentiments of Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. I hope the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources is listening. I cannot see the Chairperson or the Members. We have brought many issues here that need resolution. The essence of having the NLC was to remove that authority from the Ministry because there had been a lot of corruption, cartels and centralization of this work within the Ministry of Land for a long time. The reason was to bring the NLC to make sure that land held in trust by the people, for the people, by the county and national governments is safe. Mr. Speaker Sir, I have brought many issues on Gikomba Market. Part of the reason there are fires in Gikomba Market is because somebody somewhere is holding a title of the 12 hectres of Gikomba. He tries to burn it to keep pushing these people. They must say in a resolute manner that the land is public. Mr. Speaker Sir, just last week, thousands of homeless people in Mukuru kwa Njenga were evicted. There were feeder roads being done, but they went on and demolished beyond the feeder roads. You wonder how many mabatis and food to send. Mr. Speaker Sir, as we speak today, in Kamukunji Constituency, California Ward, there is a settlement scheme called Kinyago and Kanuku LR. 209\\20721. The residents do not know the status yet when the President gave titles the other day, big people got those titles. That is why even the title of Mukuru kwa Njenga is in the hands of one individual. One family has a title of the entire Mkuru kwa Njenga yet the residents of a settlement scheme like Kenyago cannot get. We know the company that was given that title. A former colleague from the National Assembly has been going round collecting Kshs400,000 from poor residents so that they can stay there and not get their houses demolished. So, when the feeder roads were being demolished, they took advantage and went on to demolish houses of innocent Nairobians. Mr. Speaker, Sir, right now thousands of residents of Kamae in Roysambu are fearing to be evicted because the NLC has not pronounced itself on Kamae. I just urge that, as the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources looks at this matter, they should please summon the NLC. We have issues of life, death"
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