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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "July 5, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 15 Sen. Farhiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute and to also thank Sen. Seneta for bringing this Statement. This issue is heart-breaking. On one of the television stations, there was a man who had retired and he used all his savings to buy that property. When the property was earmarked for demolition, he had a heart attack. When we saw him there, he was frail. It is a pity that one Government institution went to demolish a house and another one allowed it to be constructed, in the first place. I ask myself where the accountability to Kenyan citizens is, regarding such issues. For how long will Kenyans be languishing in poverty because of poor decisions, or corrupt construction companies colluding with corrupt Government officials and making Kenyans lose all their savings? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also think that this Statement should be committed to a Committee because Kenyans deserve better than what they are being given. That man really touched my heart. I felt as if he was so much powerless in terms how that issue had impacted him. He had already retired. He is an old and sick man. Where are we expecting him to go after demolition? That is all his savings that he used to put up that house, yet the same said property is earmarked for demolition. Somebody needs to be accountable, whether it is the contractor plus the person who allowed him to construct. I think that man and similar other Kenyans who are about to lose their property, need to be compensated even if the people who contributed to that are individually responsible for that crime."
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