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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
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    "content": "Due legal process was not followed in Mavoko. By the time you want to displace people from where they live, you first ensure that you are re-locating and compensating them. We have a humanitarian crisis now. Children have been displaced. We have seen them crying on social media. Class Eight and Form Four candidates are suddenly living in makeshift houses. Athi River is an area that does not have a lot of tree coverage. So, you can imagine the kind of cold that these children feel at night. I want us to look into our conscience as leaders. We sit here and allow someone to make a declaration in a public rally that he will destroy houses and he does it. It is not surprising that when the Right Hon. Prime Minister, Raila Amolo Odinga and His Excellency Kalonzo Musyoka were passing through Kitengela the other Sunday, they were stopped by the people by force. They had no plans of stopping, but Kenyans stopped them because they were crying out. They felt that if they had the leadership of these two gentlemen, together with Hon. Martha Karua, they would not be in that situation.  We must have compassionate leaders. To Members who are shouting that it will never happen, you do not know about tomorrow. The Government can “eat” its children. It can “eat” you as well. Do not make declarations that you cannot justify. Nobody knows about tomorrow. Secondly, I want to talk about urban planning. Before we go ahead and do what was done the other day, we ought to start thinking about urban planning. Kenya and Singapore were at par back in 1963. Singapore is currently many years ahead of us because of bad leadership. We have leaders who do not think about tomorrow, and what we need to do to ensure that the basic needs of our people are guaranteed. By the time someone builds a house in Athi River, he or she has lived there for many years. You suddenly want to come and destabilise them. We keep saying that Kenyans have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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