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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "content": "I am not misleading and I think if he means it as a point of information, he is welcome. I would not agree even with the Attorney-General. There is nothing wrong with the law. There is something very wrong with the enforcement. If you want to know how correct that is, we have a new Constitution. Why are people being evicted in a worse manner than under the old Constitution? This has nothing to do with the law. It has something to do with attitude. It has something to do with the impunity that reigns in this Government. That is why I am saying that let us not blame the law always. It is our behavior and that is what we need to change. I have said, yes, we need new laws especially those that relate to land. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to finally touch on one issue. We had an earlier issue when the Ministry of Roads wanted to demolish the new Standard Group Complex along Mombasa Road because they needed one of the by-passes to pass there. I also think the Sameer Group of Companies was affected. Those are big companies and I am not advocating that any atrocity should have been visited against them. However, when they complained, the Government listened. It sat down with them. What does that tell us when we see how the Kyang’ombe, Maasai Village and Syokimau residents were treated? It shows that this Government has only ears for the mighty and well to do. It has no time for the ordinary person. It did not listen to the cries of those people. Not even giving them a minute to, at least, get their utensils and their hard-earned furniture out of the houses. It flattened the houses even with people inside, although nobody died. There are instances where people were scampering out when the bulldozer was already pushing the wall. Is this a Government that respects human rights? Is this a Government that is adhering to the social justice principle that our Constitution upholds? If we are adhering to the social justice principle, then we are not going to make people destitutes in their own country. We are going to give them alternative land where they can go. If they have been mislead because of confusion in Government offices, the Government should own up. Henceforth, because there are going to be many other occupied places where the Government will need land, it is time that a fund is set up to cleanse the errors of omission and commission that were committed by this Government and previous regimes. It will take a sinking and a compensation policy that will give a clear criteria so that wrongdoers are not compensated, but innocent people are compensated. We also need an undertaking - and that we can give ourselves as a House through another amendment - that the land where those poor citizens were evicted from is not going to be allocated under any circumstances, whatsoever, to individuals. If we do not have such a resolution, you will see houses coming up. You will see godowns coming up. After all, the residents of Kyang’ombe said in some of the land that they left, there were Chinese godowns. I have seen in the Report that there are some godowns there. So, you demolish the houses by citizens, but leave Chinese godowns standing on the same very land. It does not matter whether they are Chinese or any other nationality. The question is: If it is insecure to have buildings, why do you leave some and demolish others? I want to support this Report wholeheartedly."
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