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    "id": 1369440,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi North, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Eng.) Paul Nzengu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate. At the outset, I want to empathise and sympathise with the people of Mavoko Constituency for that barbaric action that was meted upon them. It is a pity that a lot of people may have lost their lifetime earnings through this act of carelessness. I want to condemn the whole act with the strongest terms possible. I also condemn a section of Members who tried to trivialise the whole thing by associating the grabbing of the land as reported to having been orchestrated by the Wiper Democratic Movement brigade. They claimed that the elections of 2022 were financed by the proceeds obtained from the sale of this land. This was a careless statement and a mockery to the people that lost their earnings. Hon. Temporary Speaker, two wrongs do not make a right. Assuming that there was a problem in that area where the titles were mixed up or rather some authorities somewhere made a mistake, that does not qualify the people that were affected to be hurt in the manner it was done to them. We have examples of land where people were inadvertently misled into buying land that was not with the right title, but later, people were sat down and negotiated. A case in point is land opposite Bollore Logistics along Old Airport Road, where I know, Kenyans were duped to buy land which had apparently been issued by the Government, by the then Kenya African National Union Party sympathisers, but the owner resurfaced later. I am privy to the information that the owner who was an Indian agreed to negotiate with the new land owners. They agreed on a middle ground. They negotiated for the true market price at that particular time and they paid the owner who vacated possession of that land. In this particular case where the land belongs to the Government, the alternative would have been to negotiate with the land owners and developers, agree on a market price and ask them to buy the said land."
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