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    "id": 1369507,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Changamwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omar Mwinyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me time to weigh in on this sensitive matter. I want to support this Motion by standing in solidarity with the people of Mavoko. I also support this Motion by condemning the act by the Government. We are not talking about the Kenya Kwanza Government here. We are talking about the Kenyan Government. The actions taken by the Government are barbaric and are not different from what the Israeli Government is doing to the Palestinians. I also join my fellow colleagues in condemning the trivialisation of this matter by any Member of Parliament. As Members of Parliament, we are national leaders. We do not belong to either wing. When it comes to such issues, we are supposed to forget about our political parties and rise to the occasion. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also support this Motion condemning anybody who wants to settle a political score by harming innocent Kenyans. The onus of settling people is on the Government. Our successive Governments have failed to arrange how people are going to be settled. That is why you find that when people see a piece of land lying idle anywhere, they start building, then wazee wa nyumba kumi and wazee wa mtaa are elected, and then the assistant chief. Of course, the county commissioner is also aware because he also takes part of the money when people are coming there. Later on, you find the same Deputy County Commissioners (DCCs) and Government officials coming with bulldozers to bring down the shelters. This is very unfortunate and it should come to an end. We have seen successive Governments ignoring reports that are given about land grabbing and malpractices and nothing has been done about it. Nobody has been taken to court or jailed. It means all our governments have been supporting these malpractices. We have been hearing about digitisation of the land registries since the 1980s. To date, we still want to collect cash money because we want to steal the money. We are not interested in digitising because we still want to do malpractices in land matters. If the Government is the culprit, how then do you go and demolish people’s homes? I call them homes, I do not call them houses. You then do it after declaring it in a public rally that they are going to be demolished tomorrow, and then it happens. This is very unfortunate. Such things need a discussion. We need to ask ourselves what is the best way out. I believe the Government has funds to compensate the owners. They would have done that to make sure, at least, people's homes are saved. We shall ask one question: Was the action taken by the Government the best action at the time?"
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