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    "id": 1474386,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "I am disappointed because the disaster we have in Nandi County is running down both disaster response and management. The Governor hired three of his siblings. One of them is the Assistant Director of Education. Another one, who was his chief campaign soloists, is the Chief Officer (CO) for Education. We also have online bloggers. Most of those people have never been to their duty stations. These are issues that continue to bedevil us especially in Nandi County and I condemn them with the strongest terms possible. In the next one month, the County Executive of Nandi County should appear before the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) and even the CPAC. I want to assure the people of Nandi that we are still following up to establish how Kshs100 million was used. They must account for everything that they do. You can run, but you cannot hide. That is why last time I said that the headquarters of corruption is Nandi County. I am irritated by the mess that we see, where cronies and siblings are hired by the Governor of Nandi to work for him. We shall resist. I want to assure the people of Nandi. If I had the power to initiate an impeachment, I would have done it a long time ago. It is MCAs who initiate and the Senate upholds impeachment charges. Secondly is on the issue of evictees from Mau Forest. We must find a way of handling forest evictees. In disaster, there are what we call forest evictees, like in Serengonik and Mau Forest. There is also a new form of evictees referred to as infrastructural evictees. Those infrastructural evictees are in Nairobi and in major cities, such as Eldoret, Kisumu and other cities across the country. In fact, in Mosoroit, in my local centre, there were infrastructural evictees who were being evicted by the County Government of Nandi. They are even found along Namgoi. That is what we call infrastructural evictees. Madam Temporay Speaker, you will realize that is another challenge of disaster. When you evict people, like what happened in Toi Market in Nairobi, you create what we call infrastructural evictees. The traditional evictees that we have known are maybe flood evictees because the floods were here in Nairobi the other day. We have Mau Forest evictees, Serengonik forest evictees in Nandi Hills and across the country. This continues to be a challenge. In the last session when I was the Chairman of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, we did investigate the issue of Solai Dam Tragedy, where it killed a number of Kenyans. I am happy that the Senate at that time made a recommendation. The recommendation was done by the current Governor of Makueni and the former Senator of Makueni, Hon. Mutula Kilonzo Jr. Madam Temporary Speaker, at that time, the famous Nakuru County Commissioner Joshua Nkanatha, Chief Kiragu and Mansukul Patel had connived to pay off the victims without being charged before the court of law. As much as I sympathise that the outcome of the court has been that every family be compensated between an amount of Kshs800,000 to Kshs1.2 million, I expected a harsher penalty since that famous Patel Dam in Solai killed many Kenyans. It swept away more than 3,000 coffee farms. There were more than 200 million cubic metres of water that were washed downstream and many lives were lost. It is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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