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    "id": 1299457,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1299457/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "id": 13589,
        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "vitiated by politicians. That is very true. Statements have been made by different politicians regarding this land. There are quite a number of highly connected people involved. The idea is not to give this land to Portland or give it for any other purpose allocated which is the work of the National Lands Commission (NLC). The idea is to grab this land and take it for their personal interest having taken it away from others. Even if this was to be for industry, the Affordable Housing Project, these people had already done housing. I am aware that Portland Cement have a debt with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB). Even if it was for a debt with KCB, there should have been notice of 90 days. Upon giving the notice of 90 days, people would have negotiated. Fine, even if the land does not belong to us, can we then raise money and pay KCB, so that now we can know what to do for the land. Can we then pay for the land so that we can occupy it? For the information of this House, there are many other thousands of acres of land in that area, which are going to be mined and left vacant. So, for all purposes and intent, that still would have covered any purposes the Government or any other agency would have wanted to do in future, but not to evict the people in an inhumane way, destroy their properties and fail to have a human face. I do not think that is what the Government is. It has a human face. That is why we politicians go to the people, we are their servants and we should hear to their cries. So, the ones who damaged and destroyed the properties, I am very sure that the Court of Appeal will revisit this. There is going to be a substantive hearing while the houses are down, people have been evicted and churches destroyed. From what I have seen, even a Mosque which was irregularly constructed on public land without consultation in my village a place called Kathonzweni, the Muslim community who had done that, left the area. Up to today, nobody has touched that Mosque. It is respected. Nobody can just go and destroy it. You must respect places of worship because they are sanctified and all land we are fighting over belongs to God. It does not belong to a particular individual. I believe we will finally go to the Court of Appeal and I am sure all the parties involved are very busy filing. There is also this other ruling we are waiting for in November, I hope it is also not going to be ruled on technicalities. I am sure the judicial officer dealing with it has seen the outcome of a court decision barely on technicalities, looking merchandized, not usual. Justice must be seen to be done. Justice cannot be managed through cartels---"
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