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    "id": 1320,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Maina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of land and demolition has even gone a notch higher. We saw the other day this Government back down from demolishing some buildings along Mombasa Road. Why was this so? It is because they belonged to influential people and big companies. I do not know whether anything happened. What are you telling the ordinary Kenyans when you say that you cannot demolish a certain building on the road reserve along Mombasa Road because it belongs to such-and-such a company and people know that such-and-such a company belongs to who and who? Then the following day the same Government wakes up and heartlessly goes and demolishes a house like the one for an old lady. I want to quote a lady who appeared in the media and said: “I hate this country.” Surely, we must ask ourselves, as leaders, in this country whether we are creating a country where a lady, pushed to a point and in tears, can go to the media and say “I hate this country.” It is like a child saying: “I hate this woman who is my mother.” This Government must soul-search itself and ensure that, in as much as we are trying to put things in order, first of all, there is equity in law. If a building on Mombasa Road is on the road reserve, let us not be told of any investment. Let it come down. There is no point of bringing down a building of a family of six children in Embakasi, Syokimau or Mombasa, when you want to save some capitalism somewhere along Mombasa Road. This Government is not there just for what I would call “capital” but it is there for the interest of the people."
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