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    "id": 1369432,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1369432/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "What would be the solution? We can blame each other and say it is this one or the other one, but at the end of the day, we are all Kenyans. We fought for Independence and got rid of the colonisers. We took possession of our land, but we did not do that for certain people or to frustrate, harm, injure, economically destroy other people and financial institutions. In this country, if you want a loan for your business, you go with your title deed. Today, banks are not able to lend you money using title deeds because they do not trust them. The issue of Mavoko, was a miscarriage of justice. I really want to appeal to the Chief Justice, who is a mother and a woman, that we need to stop making decisions in courtrooms when it comes to emotive matters like land which involves a huge community. We need to take the courts to the grassroots. Take the courts to the grassroots and have an open session. Nothing stops them from going to the grassroots to see what is happening. We have a decision made in court that will affect and impact a number of households in Nairobi. The residents of Nairobi in the Kirima case, have been given up to 31st December 2023 to move. Why can we not have a multisectoral approach when we have land matters involving the community? The Judiciary keeps telling us to go for alternative dispute mechanism. The Judiciary itself can initiate the arbitration and the alternative dispute mechanism and bring the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Planning, the police and the community so as to look at how we can safeguard the dignity of the people we are supposed to represent."
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