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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I had gone through the Report and I thank the chairlady, Hon. (Dr.) Rachael, together with the petitioner who raised this matter, Mr. Harrison Muema. The players involved in the parcels of land in question, that is, Drive-In Primary School and Ruaraka High School had the intention of taking money from the taxpayers. This process was initiated by the National Land Commission (NLC). The NLC acted on the complaints that were provided by two companies, that is, Afrison Import and Export Limited Company and another one. These two companies claimed that there were historical injustices which made them require to be paid. So, I realised that everything was done at the behest of the NLC. It is true that there are several injustices about land in this country which the NLC has not addressed. From the Report, we realised that there was no valuation of the land in question except payment of stamp duty. The land was over-valued compared to the value of neighbouring land. There was no evidence of public inquiry into the matter that the NLC was bringing forth. There was also no evidence that there have been historical injustices in the said matter. The schools have been occupying the said land for more than 33 years now. Therefore, the land belonged to the schools. After reading this Report carefully, I realised that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology seemed to have been sucked in to help choreograph an emergency that was not there. There was no emergency that the schools mentioned in this Report, that is, Ruaraka High School and Drive-In Primary School were being evacuated. If, indeed, the schools were being evacuated from that particular land, we would have known. I, specifically, would have known because of my background in the teaching fraternity. We would have known that two schools in this country were under threat of evacuation. The leadership of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology appeared before our Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. They misdirected the Committee that this was a matter of urgency and that the schools would be evacuated or removed from that place if money was not paid. This was at the time when there were serious emergencies in this country. I remember during that period many schools in this country had been washed away by flood waters. Good examples I can give are the schools around Suswa area and Tana River that were either swept away or could not open. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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