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    "id": 193964,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. K. Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Julius Kiema Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise on a point of order to seek a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Roads on the wanton destruction of properties along Mombasa Road which was witnessed yesterday. We have come from the post-election violence where properties were destroyed. Here, again, we saw properties of the poor being destroyed along Mombasa Road. When the Minister makes the Ministerial Statement, I request him to consider the following points:- One, those people in Embakasi whose properties were destroyed allege that they had title deeds which are sacrosanct documents issued for land ownership. I want to know whether those people were given adequate notice. If these people had title deeds, what will the Government do to compensate them? At the same time, we remember that when the NARC Government came to power, some properties were destroyed because they wanted to construct by-passes. I would want the Minister to tell us why to date those by-passes have not been done. Is this a repeat of the same exercise, or they are going to do proper road reserves? I want to know why this Government cannot do this with a human face. Yesterday we saw on television, poor Kenyans crying. I also believe that the Leader of Government Business sympathised with those people who were crying because their houses and other properties had been destroyed and they had nowhere to go. Therefore, the Minister, should very urgently tell Kenyans for how long the poor people will continue to suffer when their properties continue to be destroyed and nothing is being done."
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