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    "id": 1565171,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "The issue of compensation has been a nagging problem, especially with Government agencies. The question we keep asking ourselves is why the Government put in a request or a need for land, and failed to put a budget for compensation of land. This is a process that really disadvantages the land owners because they are given notices to leave, the projects are initiated, and are sometimes completed before members of the public are compensated. The most outstanding issue in this case is that, an initial acquisition was made of 390 acres, but they ended up using 28,000 hectares of land. So, how do we make use of land that has not even been paid for? It is on this same Floor that in the past, I indicated that there are even a number of markets in this country, one of them is in my county called Kodumba Market. That is a market still on freehold, the owners of this land were never compensated, but the county government even collects cess from that land. To me, this is an injustice to the people of Kenya and particularly this LAPSSET Project. There has been use of so much money. Why do they use people’s land yet they were never compensated them? It is unfair? So, I support that the land owners must be compensated, not only for the land, but for even the property that was on that land. I support."
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