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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyachae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Roads and Public Works",
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        "legal_name": "Simeon Nyachae",
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    "content": " He is a Member of this House, but I do not want to name him. He is not being excused from our action. His house does not encroach on the 110 metres of the road reserve, but his tank does. I have issued instructions for that tank to be demolished. So, there is no selective action. There is so much talk about the Mavoko Municipal Council having a say on this land and allocating it to people. Mavoko Municipal Council has no jurisdiction over this particular land. If it assumed that it had jurisdiction over it, that is its own problem. I told the area Member of Parliament this morning to advise his people appropriately. If they were misled by a local authority, they should know the people who issued them with allotment letters. They should sue those people for any losses they incur. I have nothing to do with it. They did illegal things; so, let the affected people take those who misled them to court and seek compensation. It was the local authority which misled them. Hon. Raila, talked about redesigning the road. Hon. Raila was a very active Minister for Roads and Public Works. I just took over from him the job he was doing. He was involved in the designing of this road. Discussions on this road have taken place for more than 10 years. There were redesigns of this road. There was also consultancy work carried out by overseas firms appointed by the World Bank, in conjunction with our own engineers and consultancy firms. I found this job going on. I am implementing what was agreed on. If there was any other option, it would have been considered at the right time. This morning somebody was asking me: \"Why do 3066 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 19, 2006 you not re-route this road to pass through where the chicken house is located?\" I said that those chicken occupy land belonging to somebody. What guarantee do I have that it can serve as an alternative route? This land belongs to a private person. We have designed everything. We have secured a loan from the World Bank. For your information, the contractor is on site. How can you hold me back and ask me to look for land elsewhere? All the pieces of land around this project are occupied. Hon. Members, whether you like it or not, this project must be implemented. It is part of our programme to decongest Nairobi. We must not delay this project any more. We must construct this road. So, we will go ahead with it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, some Hon. Members are saying that the affected people have not been informed. I have in my office a big folder containing letters written by the Machakos District Commissioner (DC) to Mavoko Municipal Council, informing it that it had no right to allocate this land. Those involved were given the necessary information by the DC, but they ignored him. The individual who allocated this land is known. He was a Town Clerk and later on became a Mayor. He has just left the municipality. That is the man who did all these things. He should be followed up. It is known how things went wrong. We cannot now come here and harass my Ministry. I think I have responded to the points raised."
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