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    "id": 835036,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I thank the petitioners for coming to this House on this matter. We need to strike a balance in this country. This is the same issue from Marmanet Forest, Mau Forest et cetera. We understand the need to conserve the environment which must be done at all cost. However, this notion of indentifying projects and programmes before people is a wrong way to go about things. People must be treated with dignity and respect. As much as they must be settled out of the forest, the same way as the Mau Forest, let it be done in a dignified manner with respect to the fact there are children, old women and wazees who must be given an alternative place to settle. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge the Committee, that as they look at this to also consider that I had raised a similar issue about the residents of Kibagare slums who needed their title deeds. I also brought the issue of residents of Mukuru kwa Njenga slum who have similar issues. The Committee also needs to look at the issue of people being evicted from buildings that are built on riparian land. People cannot be evicted from a building where they are third or fourth buyers while somebody made money from it and those who approved construction of those buildings are not asked to pay for it. I will bring the issue of demolitions in Nairobi and the compensation of those suffering from it to the House substantively. I thank the petitioners and hope that the Committee will expedite this matter."
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