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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister makes reference to the administration of President Kibaki, but of course, the correct thing is that it is a Grand Coalition Government. It is the administration of the Coalition Government. However, it is also the same Government that set up the Ndung’u Commission that went around the country and systematically produced a report containing names of big people that own public land including the land belonging to the Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) all over the country, including Kabete, Wilson Airport and many other places. This Government is selectively applying the law against the very poor people in Kenya. Ms. Martha Karua has tabled a letter bearing a signature of one Victor Ochieng’ who describes in great detail the atrocities that are being committed on the people of Kenya by the Government. These are atrocities that are worse than those inflicted on people under the apartheid regime in South Africa or the Mau Mau Colonial Administration in Kenya, yet we have a Government Minister standing in this Parliament telling us that they will continue despite the KAA having gone to court to seek eviction and the court refusing. The day the case was coming to court, they moved bulldozers and police officers in the most criminal and roguish manner to evict Kenyan citizens because they are poor. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, no wonder Kenyans are asking that we hold elections in August next year rather than allow this Government to shamelessly continue harassing its own citizens as if they have no rights under the Constitution. Is it in order for this Minister to stand up in Parliament and justify conduct that is criminal in nature?"
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