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    "id": 1440,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 204,
        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are many Kenyans who had taken loans to build homes. As we are talking, almost 60 per cent of the population of Nairobi is living in unplanned settlement. If you see some of the homes that were destroyed in Syokimau, you will really wonder how somebody can go and destroy a five bed roomed house in Syokimau built on land that does not even belong to Kenya Airports Authority (KAA). We have millions of Kenyans living in squalor in informal settlements in Mathare, Kibera and all manner of informal settlements in the country. This is really unfortunate and it demonstrates the “out of touch attitude” that some in Government have; the kind of contempt they have for poor Kenyans. It cannot continue like this. It cannot be business as usual. It is absolutely clear that some of those demolitions were an excuse for people who actually want to get rid of others, so that they can make money out of those settlements. I think it is very clear that we are going to have a resolution in this House that in all the areas that Kenyans have been evicted in a very violent manner - only second to what we saw in the post-election violence - do not benefit individuals. If any person or group of persons, irrespective of their status, thought that they could use violence on Kenyans by removing them from their homes so that they can make money by selling or make capital out of it, they should forget. For any reasons, if those settlements will be used for building houses, it must be given to the people who were removed from there. That is because they are equally Kenyans and deserve a place to stay and live like any one of us."
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