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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "I hope that in this Supplementary Budget we will also look into the school-feeding programme for our students. We have a challenge not only in public schools, but also in community-based and faith-based schools. We need to start touching lives. By touching lives, I do not mean with long-term projects. I mean touching lives with short-term, immediate projects. We have been pledging to pay the people whose houses were demolished Ksh10,000. This is mediocre. We are assuming that a person whose house we have demolished lives in a slum and can find a house, pay a deposit and move in with Ksh10,000. We have not realised the emotional damage that we have caused that person. If I were the President of this country and I wanted to clear out riparian land, the first thing I would have done is to identify the houses to be demolished. Nobody even knows whether it is 30 metres. People just wake up to X markings on their houses, then the houses are demolished. I would have found out how many houses are on riparian land in each region. I would make sure that I know where the displaced people are moving to and not just break their houses and then tell them to move. This has now been left to the chiefs and Deputy County Commissioner (DCC), who have no idea whose houses they have demolished and who the genuine beneficiaries are. This is because we are disorderly. If the Government is disorderly, then citizens will be disorderly. If we had identified, budgeted and known that a number of people in a particular slum would be moved, we would have had their names, set aside their money and identified where they would be relocated to. We would give them seven days and sufficient money. We should have given them not less than Ksh50,000 per family. The Ksh10,000 is not enough. We could have also given them the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) cover. There has to be benefits. Those people found themselves in those riparian lands because we, as the 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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