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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I cannot reconcile myself with what I saw, namely, the broken men and women looking at their life savings going down into ashes. Upper Hill is whose land? All those buildings in Upper Hill are on whose land? The land was given by the Government. The Kenya Railways and the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) in Eldoret are on whose land? It is Government land. My question is: Who is East African Portland Cement? Fifty-two per cent belongs to the Government of Kenya through the National Treasury and the NSSF, 42 per cent to Lafarge, and 6 per cent to Kenyans. Therefore, 58 per cent of that land belongs to Kenyans. So, who is the Government? We call it: Of the people, by the people, for the people. The Government has the moral authority and ability to solve the Mavoko issue. They did not have to wait for those properties to be pulled down and then talk about arbitration. When do you arbitrate? How was judgment made that day and the following day bulldozers were on site? It means somebody had the script and was waiting to do what they did. As I finish, it is high time we called for compassion because it is lacking. People should have looked at their conscious when pulling those houses and schools down. This is the time when examinations are about to start and schools and churches were pulled down. It is the time when people are going for Christmas and they end up homeless. Being a predominantly Christian country, we celebrate Christmas yet we are pulling down houses three months to Christmas. Where will they go? I did not see compassion and people's conscience being pricked. I saw cold-hearted Kenyans destroying other Kenyans homes. My question is: What happened to our value system as a country? It is a time for reflection and as my colleagues have said, we need to look at this matter soberly as leaders of this country. I call for arbitration and for people to be compensated for loss of property."
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