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"speaker_name": "Igembe Central, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to comment on the Petition. It has got a lot of issues which have been raised by the petitioners. In as much as we like development and we are ready to have these infrastructural developments in our country, the planners and the people who are supposed to do the survey and everything else should put into consideration people’s property. They should regard people who own the affected pieces of land. The problem we have in this country is poor planning whereas we have officers who are on the ground who should plan properly so that when we try to develop some areas of our country, we do not affect other people’s properties. If the railway is being laid down, the contractor must take into consideration compensation for the affected people. Therefore, it should not take ages to compensate people who have had their property destroyed or who have been displaced. Before they start excavating that land, they should ensure those people who have been living, farming or sleeping on those pieces of land are first compensated and well-settled before the work starts. The demolition of properties in Nairobi and elsewhere which is currently ongoing is because of poor planning. Those officers who have been certifying construction on those pieces of land should be held culpable because they are the ones who have caused all those problems. 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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