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"content": "Secondly, when we enacted the Constitution in 2010, we created a Special Land and Environment Court. The thinking on the chapter on Judiciary was that issues like evictions should be dealt with by judges of the High Court and not magistrates court. Though I hear that this particular order - if I heard Sen. Madzayo clearly - was issued by a magistrate’s court. We need to rethink whether there is wisdom in giving magistrates’ courts such expansive powers, including giving the power to give eviction orders. Land is a sensitive matter. When you are evicting 200 families, imagine how many poor and innocent children have been rendered homeless. These are not people who will wake up tomorrow and get alternative homes. It is inhumane and we need to be extremely sympathetic to families that are vulnerable so that we do not render them homeless just by an act of eviction carried out one morning."
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