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    "id": 696603,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to thank Hon. Theuri for bringing this Petition. Land grabbing in Nairobi is a disaster. Another Petition came here recently which you referred to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. Land- grabbing has turned life in the community upside down. In many estates like Salama, Karanja Road, Fort Jesus and Ayany, you cannot find a playing ground. The grabbing ranges from private business people to even institutions like churches. Places where we could have built local dispensaries and clinics are all gone. This Petition must be looked into very carefully, so that we can have open spaces again. We can even come up with a procedure to reclaim them and build local police stations and other things that benefit the community. Lastly is on the issue of land for schools including Government public schools. Two years ago, the Cabinet Secretary for Education was Prof. Kaimenyi and now we have Dr. Matiang’i. We were promised, and the President uttered himself on this, that all public schools, especially in Nairobi, would get title deeds for their land. It is almost two years since that pledge and promise was made. I have nine public primary schools in Kibra and none of them have title deeds. The procedure is taking too long, which leaves these schools at risk. When powerful people come across them and they know how to play the system, they take advantage of the weak school committees, school parent-teacher associations (PTAs) and the head-teachers, who are easily intimidated, to take over the schools and make the land part of their properties. This is a timely Petition and I thank Hon. Theuri for bringing it."
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