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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Corruption Commission to find out under what process the Kshs50,000 was paid. To whom was it paid? The receipts that were issued apparently were not legitimate receipts. The final issue that came up in our Committee was the question of how the owners of Leo Investments and Diamond Plaza have used a court injunction. This was explained to us and there was an initial court injunction in December, 2012 against the school, compelling the school to keep its gate open for 14 days. This was subsequent to the same injunction renewed to last for almost another 12 months. We were informed that the injunction that compelled the head teacher and her staff to keep the school gates open for people to park in the school lapses on 3rd December, which will be Tuesday next week. What measures can the Nairobi County Government take to make sure that from 3rd December, 2013, nobody parks on the school property? If they do, the cars should be cramped. What information is there to the public that parking in that school is illegal? How do we deal with the owners of Leo Investments who insist that they are untouchable? This is a plea that the Committee came up with unanimously because that is how we work in the Committee. There are no party issues. We put the interest of the children first. So, you find that Highridge Secondary School is a tenant of Highridge Primary School, which authorized this parking. But we have been told this is happening in many places in the country where secondary schools are built but they do not get allocated their own land, or sub-division undertaken so that they can have their own titles. So, they do not have control over their schools. Hon. Speaker, Sir, it has been said that the threat is the owner of Leo Investments, who has told people he has got the papers and he is in the process of actually getting the land, which Highridge Secondary School does not have a title for. I hope this will not happen and together we will reach resolutions in support of this Committee, the children and generally schools in Kenya. With the support of the Cabinet Secretary, those schools will get their own land. I know this will be a great accomplishment by the Jubilee Government. All of us, hon. Members of Parliament, should stand up for our children and our school committees. Thank you."
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