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    "id": 876850,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Statement by sen. Pareno. I wish to say that it is quite absurd to realise that such a large number of police men and youth was sent to evict people at Em-pakasi. I am sure if we could even go further, we would realise that there is more to the eviction of these people because, normally, when such a large number of police officers and youth evict people, they even cause other harm. You can visualise what is happening in that particular area because from the Statement, I think we ought to still ask ourselves what actually prompted the eviction of the Maasai Community from the particular area which has been their home for many years. Issues of eviction in this country have become very rampant. I think this one here is comparable to the eviction that has been taking place in the Mau Forest, particularly in areas where people have been living for a long time. Normally, we are told that there is a policy to resettle them. In any case, this one is normally affected by issues of corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, normally when people are evicted, they are evicted in a very inhumane manner and exposed to cold. We can imagine that they are old people, expectant mothers and young kids that were evicted. In this particular case, we are told that a school was flattened. Right now, schools are going on and the children of those particular people who were evicted are losing on learning or education which is a basic need. In addition to that, when people are evicted, their property is destroyed and they go without food, stay in the cold and in the final analysis, they are supposed to seek medication and yet they may not have the financial ability. It is high time that a proper policy is put in place to ensure that those people who are going to be evicted have to be provided with an alternative area for settlement because it is the right of every citizen in this country to be provided with a safe home as well a safe environment together with food. I think it is in the public domain that those people have been provided for in terms of plans for an alternative home and maybe land, while those ones of the Mau Forest have suffered for many years and still, nobody has ever looked into their plight critically. We ought to relook at the idea of eviction. We need to have a policy and a proper framework for evicting people as well as settling them for the citizens of this country not The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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