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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I hope she is well advised. Let me say that the Member of Parliament for Mavoko started his contribution very well, but he finished it in a very unfortunate manner by attempting to disparage Members of Parliament who represent their people based on their ethnicity, like those from Ukambani. That is unfortunate. We should not make this Adjournment Motion to be an issue to do with ethnicity or political affiliation. That is why I am here to debate it. I listened keenly to what the Leader and the Deputy Leader of the Minority Party said. I listened to them from my Office and I was rather perturbed that a senior leader like the Leader of the Minority Party can say that he does not care whether or not there was a court order and who owned the land. He does not care who bought the land first. He speaks about atrocities and yet our colleagues from the Minority side, especially those from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), fashion their party as one that stands at the forefront of the fight against corruption. How then would you not care when public land is grabbed? Land grabbers who grab public land with impunity have visited atrocities on the people of Mavoko and elsewhere. We must also question the role of Government officers in land grabbing. There is no question as to who owns the land. It is owned by the East African Portland Cement Company. Even Hon. Robert Mbui knows that. He also knows that current and former leaders in the region, including former Members of Parliament, municipal council chairmen and councillors grabbed that land and sold it to innocent buyers. It is one thing to pontificate about the fight against corruption in political rallies and funerals, and then come to this House to defend corruption and land grabbing. The leadership of Machakos County has visited atrocities on the people of Mavoko by perpetuating grabbing of public land. The County Government of Machakos continues to approve construction of buildings on land that they know is not owned by the people seeking approval permits. How did they build houses that were approved by the County Government of Machakos without requisite ownership documents, including title deeds? Those are the people who have visited atrocities on the people of Machakos and Mavoko. The Governor of Machakos County and former chairmen of the Mavoko Municipal Council, like the Member for Mavoko, must be held to account. They must tell Kenyans how and when that land was grabbed and what their roles were. You cannot hide behind politics, as Hon. Robert Mbui has attempted to, by raising issues about where people are being evicted. Hon. Robert Mbui and I were in this House when the Uhuru Kenyatta administration evicted people from Mathare around the sewage treatment plant."
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