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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwenje",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David S. Kamau Mwenje",
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    "content": " I do not know what I will say in one minute, but I will try to be very fast. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, 70 per cent of my constituents are squatters. Embakasi Constituency has a population of about one million people, being the most densely populated constituency in this country. I am bothered that, literally, every day, I have problems with squatters coming to my house, demanding that I help them in one way or another. What makes me even more concerned is the fact that some of the people owning land, which they obtained unscrupulously, have now turned to demolishing slum dwellings in Nairobi. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, two days ago, some dwellings in a slum were demolished by a former Member of Parliament for Starehe Constituency, who owns over 2,000 acres of land in Embakasi alone. These days, he does not only demolish the houses but he burns them down completely, without caring that people have been living in them for more than 15 years. What I know is that there is the law of advance position of a particular land. I think that law should now be applied because we are punishing these people and sitting on a time bomb. This will become a very serious matter later. I hope this issue will be looked into."
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