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    "id": 814262,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Taveta, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Naomi Shaban",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "All those considerations should have been put in place in the beginning. In the 11th Parliament, we were doing things in a rush considering that the Constitution had just been promulgated and we needed to move on to activate some parts of it. In the process, we left so many gaps. Those are the loopholes which are being misused today by Kenyans who have been given the mandate of dealing with land valuation and compensation. They have taken advantage of that loophole and they are misusing taxpayers’ money. They do not have a conscious I also have many examples. You find somebody who is being compensated for less than a quarter of land being given more money than a person with 10 acres of land. I have seen this. It has happened even when they were doing compensation in my area. I had to point it out that it was wrong. It should not have happened because the value of land should have been the same across the board. It should have been the same amount of money so that some people do not lose out. You do not punish people because they own big chunks of land. We have had places where people have destroyed permanent structures in the name of compensation yet those permanent structures were not given the value they deserved because if anything, you are not supposed to leave people as destitute. People are not supposed to leave permanent homes and stay without shelter. Even if you had non-permanent house or a temporary structure, you should be able to move somewhere and acquire some small piece of land and put up a structure where you can have shelter with your family. These laws will give guidelines to the people who do valuation. The valuers also need to be reminded because if a serious audit is undertaken, you realise that a lot of taxpayers’ money has been wasted. In some areas, people have become rich overnight because they speculate. They 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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