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    "id": 1312,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1312/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ndeti",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 109,
        "legal_name": "Wavinya Ndeti",
        "slug": "wavinya-ndeti"
    },
    "content": "We, as leaders of this country, must protect our people. Ours cannot be a country without people. It is the people who form a country called Kenya. The Bible says love your neighbour as you love yourself. If you are a leader, love your people as you love yourself. We should know that God has given us these positions not to destroy our people, but to protect them. If there was a need to evict these people, there were better ways of doing so, without hurting them. We would have talked to people, involved leaders and negotiated with them. We would have told them that we wanted to expand our airport and they would have seen sense. However, we cannot just go demolishing people’s properties without involving them. The Member for Kamukunji has just spoken about the Kenyans who live outside this country and want to come and invest in Kenya. It is very sad. Some of them invested in Syokimau. One of them was a young man aged 30 years. He built a house there worth Kshs15 million. He was doing odd jobs in Europe and saved all that money to build a home. When he was preparing to come home for Christmas he was called and told that his house had been demolished. As I speak now, we are going to bury a lady who has died because of the Syokimau issue. The lady went there and saw the house being demolished and yet there was a boy inside. She just collapsed and never woke up from that. She never knew whether the boy was saved or not."
}