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    "id": 1242967,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for this opportunity. I rise and support Sen. Mariam Omar’s Petition on Mihango. Allow me to state that Mihango is actually my voting station. That is where I vote in Embakasi East, and to be precise, Mihango Primary. It is an area that I am very familiar with. The issue of residents or owners being evicted from their residences is not new in this particular area. I am happy that she has put this across because it is very wrong for anybody, as much as it is a Government organization, to evict families, hence loss of properties and lives. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to agree that on 15th March, 2018, the KPC launched “Ondokea Laini”. This was to ensure that people who were living under the wayleaves get out of this particular area. Why do we have wayleaves under KPC? These particular areas assist KPC to be able to maintain their equipment at a given particular or different moments, depending on the situation of the power and to be able to inspect and repair their equipment. However, in the event that families are in a particular area, it becomes very sad on the modalities and the processes that institutions and Government institutions then use to put off families in these moments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this reminds me that last week in an area called California, people were evicted at 2.00 a.m., in the escort of police officers in this country. We had families in these areas leaving. I support Sen. Mariam Omar on the matter Mihango. I request that the Committee you will assign to look into this should ensure the stakeholders or KPC also states and gives full report on the losses that have been incurred. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to agree that cartels have also been involved during this in misleading Kenyans to buying land and property in the wrong destinations. Kenyans, especially in our good Nairobi City County that we represent buy land that is not genuine. There are cases yes, where people have bought land that they will live in either knowingly or unknowingly. This has led to these particular situations that you see, then we bring on the Floor. However, still that does not indicate that people should lose their lives and property. There are better ways of KPC coming in and hence, that is why they set the operation that is called Ondokea Laini Operation . They came and realized that this is"
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