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    "id": 1299461,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "Madam Speaker, I really sympathise with the people of Mavoko, particularly those who lost their property. Nonetheless, being a legal battle, everybody and everyone was fighting for their right. This legal battle has been going on for nine years between the Cement Company and the residents of that region. For nine years, they were unable to agree on what they were supposed to do in regard to the parcels of land that they bought from cartels, criminals and those who grabbed it. The said Cement Company has about 900 acres of land just nearby. They were able to discuss with those who bought land from land grabbers. They had agreed. They said, ‘As much as we paid the land grabbers, we are going to pay the cement company.” That is why, maybe there was no demolition. The cement company had an agreement with those who bought land from the land-grabbers. On this issue, instead of being reactive, we should be proactive. There have been billboards that have been put on that land urging Kenyans not to buy land from that area. There was a court case and they believed that land does not belong to a society called Aimi Ma Lukenya Society that was selling land to unsuspecting people. Let us not be a House that is going to whip emotions. We want to be seen to be fighting for our people, yet we are not. If we were, the County Government of Machakos could have done something. The representatives of Machakos could have brought that issue to the Senate. In the Senate, we have very nice committees that look into such matters. However, we wait for whoever is demolishing - I do not believe is my Government - till our people lose their property. It was very painful to see a bodaboda person saying that he saved money for five years to build a house there, only for it to be demolished. After the demolishing has happened, we just make noise and then we let the criminals go. The criminals who took this land and sold it to the bodaboda person are known. Some of them are in Government and in the police administration. Today the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) has summoned so many people to appear before them to give them information. Some of them are Members of Parliament (MP), owners of a society and a former Officer in Charge of Police District (OCPD). It is sad that people have lost their property and we should condemn that with any possible terms that we can use. However, we should also go for those who conned those people who are losing their properties twice. There are some leaders of a certain political party that I do not want to mention at this particular time, that are said to have taken this land and they have been fighting whoever in the name of protecting the residents of Mavoko. How come the same people have not even helped these people to appeal this case at the courts of law? At least assist them in every way. You cannot visit them when the demolitions are happening, yet nine years ---"
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