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    "id": 1425432,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1425432/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gataya Mo Fire",
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    "content": "Such a huge project has a huge social implication, especially for the residents of Kitui and Tharaka Nithi counties. It is abnormal to see people going up and down trying to make interventions without involving political and local administrators on the ground. We have not witnessed a single incidence where residents have been subjected to public participation. We only see people make surveys. This is high time as a leadership we category agreed that the project cannot be initiated without the blessing of the political leadership on the ground. The place where the Grand Falls Dam is supposed to be constructed has been a historical settlement. People have been living there for close to 500 years. People who live in a place where they have buried their fathers, grandfathers and kinsmen should not evacuate without knowing where they will acquire land. We do not know the value of the land. We must have a serious conversation as leaders. Once these people are removed from this place where are they going to be taken? What is the value of land as of now? I stand to agree with Sen. Wambua that the political leadership from Kitui and Tharaka Nithi counties, the local administrators and the locals in both counties must be involved fully to make sure we get to know what is happening. There could be fraudsters who would want to deceive people and make sure they do a dam without benefit to the people on the ground. I strongly support the statement."
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