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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. While agreeing and appreciating your ruling, allow me to point out one thing even as the matter goes to the committee. One, that the notices that the Minister tabled are a general notice addressed to residents of Kiang’ombe Village. It omits Maasai Village. Two of the notices are addressed to specific individuals. The rest are general. One wonders - these are distinct houses - why notices were not issued to each house. Secondly, you will notice the impunity with which the Minister is dismissing due process. I would seek your indulgence to refer to Article 40(6) of the Constitution, which clearly says that the rights to ownership under this Article “do not extend to any properties that have been found to have been unlawfully acquired”. Who finds? It is due process. This Minister, along with all the Ministers and Members of this House swore to defend the Constitution. This is a Minister who is now telling us that he has no time for the institutions set up by the Constitution and for the due process. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Constitution also talks of social justice. So, even where you evict people, certain procedures which the Minister for Lands appears to have appreciated must be followed and where the Government acquiesces, they have to compensate. Is it in order for a Minister to show this august House total impunity? Is it possible for such a Minister to be sanctioned?"
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