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    "id": 501709,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/501709/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I, the undersigned, on behalf of the citizens of Kenya, and in particular residents of Suba, who were staying around Gwasi Hills Forest, draw the attention of the House to the following:- THAT, on the morning of 5th May, 2006, a contingent of guards, backed by Administration Police officers and a number of forest officers, descended on three villages in Gwasi where they burned and rendered over 100 families homeless. They destroyed all the property of the affected people; THAT, the residents were wrongly, forcefully and unlawfully evicted from their land without any reason and without any compensation; THAT, this was in contravention of the stipulated procedure to be used prior to forced eviction, under the Evictions and Resettlement Procedures Act, 2012; THAT, this action was performed by the Kenya Forest Service on the instigation of two NGOs operating in Gwasi, namely Osienala and Gwasi Hills Conservation Association; THAT, the eviction was intended to increase the acreage under forest cover from the current gazetted 4,835.7 hectares to an additional 2,737 hectares, which was to be hived off from private land that is currently inhabited by the affected individuals; THAT, noting that the community has held several meetings with authorities to resolve the issue, sent a memorandum to the Deputy County Commissioner in Suba, held meetings with"
}