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    "id": 643569,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/643569/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "The National Land Commission (NLC) is very interesting. There was so much acrimony between the Chairman of NLC and the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of Land, Housing and Urban Development. A meeting was held between the two and peace was made. The Pandora’s box has been opened. The commissioners have become political. They are grabbing land and overseeing the pilferage of land in this country. I had occasion to look at the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) land acquisition programme. It is dirty. We are waiting for the Departmental Committee on Lands to table a report that tells Kenyans how Kshs25 billion of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) public land was stolen between here and Mombasa. If they will not, they will go to the Budget and Appropriations Committee anyway. I saw the report and it is dirty. Even though somebody said that we should not be sending commissions home, some of them are unnecessary. Look at what is happening at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). It is only 15 months before an election and so we cannot leave them. They must go home. They are not good enough. Fifty three years after Independence, this country can certainly do better. If you look at what is happening in Rift Valley, there is already an ugly animal rearing its head of land clashes. We cannot keep quiet to let somebody create an opportunity for more land clashes. The IEBC is leading us to chaos and mayhem. I would be shocked if anybody in this country thinks that IEBC is credible enough even by a pinch of salt to take this country to an election."
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