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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to oppose the Motion. First, my Question was the next one on the Order Paper when the Motion was moved. It touches on a very important issue of squatters in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I come from Trans Nzoia District which is the headquarters of squatters in Kenya. Many of my constituents are squatters. As I go home for these three months, they would want to know their fate. They are afraid that there was no provision in the Budget this year for settlement of squatters. They has been almost Kshs2 billion allocated. Farms have been bought in other provinces but no settlement of squatters in Trans Nzoia has been done. I believe that the Question will come to the House on Tuesday if the House does not adjourn today and I am likely to go home with an answer. There are also matters of vital national importance before this House including the Report from the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade which was to be tabled. It is a matter that cannot leave the nation in suspense for three months until October. When we go home, we need to tell the people what happened to the Grand Regency Hotel. There is a dangerous trend in the affairs of this nation. Of late, we have had the trend of foreigners coming into this nation to buy and take over prime assets including one in the heart of the capital city of this nation; the Grand Regency Hotel. It also includes the national railway line which was taken over by Rift Valley Railways (RVR). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are expecting and, indeed, the Prime Minister did assure this House, that by next week, he is likely to bring an answer. We are aware that there have been talks with Uganda and Tanzania. We are expecting that when we go home and we have been properly briefed by the Prime Minister as to the fate of the RVR, we will be able to sit with the people at home and tell them that something is being done about the national railway line. We will have the information after being briefed. Apart from the railway line, yesterday in this House, there was the issue of Kenya Airways and foreigners coming into the country to take jobs. Jobs that Kenyans could do but perhaps we do not have enough Kenyans who can speak the French language. There are worrying issues of foreigners coming to this country, that this nation needs to address. Adjourning at this moment in time, when the nation is curious to know what exactly is happening, will not be fair to Kenyans. As we go home as Members, we will have a lot of questions to answer, yet we do not have the answers yet. A week more, might enable us to get these answers. For these reasons, I oppose."
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