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"content": "The same applies to illegal settlements in the prime Milimani area of Kakamega. We want to thank the President. He took action, and we hope that the President will not stop there, but will ensure that the demolition of houses that took place in Milimani in Kakamega should be followed up with construction of affordable houses as envisaged. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this also applies to Amalemba area in Kakamega. The stadium land and the former Airstrip land in Kakamega has been grabbed. The current Airstrip in Kakamega was originally in the city centre, when I was a little boy. When it was moved to create a bigger runway, people just went ahead and grabbed it. I know the Clerk-at-the-Table, Mr. Ruge, is not a stranger to these things. He is another son by another name of Kakamega. He knows how these people have grabbed, but I am glad none of his relatives is to blame for the grabbing. His relatives who are there are decent business people who have helped in the development of our town and they continue to do good business. My final point, as I said there were only five, is on the issue of compensation. My colleagues have spoken to compensation on public land, but I want to confine my remarks on the issue of way leave. The way leave that was taken on the following roads - we were promised that our people would be paid. During the construction of Sigalagala, Malinya, Musoli, Bukura, Sabatia and Butere Road, our people signed documents confirming that they would be compensated. Personally, because I am a very law-abiding person, I have got my two portions of land in Malinya for which I signed a way for a way leave. We are glad that the former late President Mwai Kibaki gave us the tarmac road. However, the money that the former late President Kibaki left behind that we be compensated, nobody at the National Treasury wishes to compensate us. I am using this Motion to demand that I be paid together will all the other people who gave way leave, all the way to Butere. Similarly, I would like the people who gave way leaves on the roads currently under construction for which we are very grateful, from Ikoli, Kimangeti, Malaba Town, Samitsi, Nabakholo and Chebuyusi, to be compensated. Final but not least, I demand as the Senator of Kakamega, that the people who gave way leaves for construction of the road from Lurambi, Shikoti, Ingotse, Nambacha, Dorof and all the way to Musikoma must be compensated. It is their right, unless the intention of the national Government and the NLC was to bring a road and grab land from the people who are magnanimous enough to give way leave. With those many remarks, I support and I thank you very much for this chance, Mr. Njuri Ncheke."
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