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    "content": "for domestic use be granted to the residents until the river flow is fully restored. We have precedent on this one, when this Senate interrogated and investigated the Thange oil spill in Kibwezi in 2015. The people of Thange were moved from the river; the land was leased to the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), who have been cleaning it from 2015 to date. In the meantime, they offer food and water to the people of Thange. Solai is not any different because the people of Solai have no water, they should be given water courtesy of the owners of Solai Dam. We have also recommended, in Paragraph 26, that pending the restoration of the environment and the livelihoods of the residents, an alternative piece of land with all facilities be availed for use by the residents. In a nutshell, Madam Temporary Speaker, those are the 26 recommendations of the Committee. They are far reaching, legal, practical and prosecutorial in order to fulfill our mandate number three and four in terms of compensation, restoring Solai and making sure that this never happens again. Lastly, for those Senators and the MP who thought that we went to Solai to politic, we have the HANSARD of what we were told; it was a scene and a half. The people of Kenya are tired of impunity. An old man walked from the tent and confronted the Nakuru Deputy County Commissioner for claiming that they were lying. I saved him from the wrath of the people of Solai. They were so angry that he could make such a claim, that they confronted him. Secondly, the Chief of Solai was confronted so badly that we had to protect him. Why? It is because in his reports, he had three lists of people who ought to have been paid. How did he end up having three lists of three or four villages? Once again, that is impunity. Madam Temporary Speaker, we report that out of the Kshs35 million that was given out by Mr. Perry Mansukh, the people who lost their lives were paid Kshs100,000 and Ksh200,000 respectively, while the people who lost their businesses were paid Kshs1 million."
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