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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious issue. Recently, we watched an interview about people on the Kibwezi-Kitui Road complaining that they were just seeing dead bodies or bones of people along the road because their graves had been excavated by the road contractors doing the Kibwezi Road before compensation was done. In fact, the case that Sen. Pareno raised is even worse, because whereas they made an undertaking to do Corporate Social Responsibility like building boreholes; they left a lot of these things undone. Environmental restoration orders were not done either and nothing has been complied with. In terms of construction of roads - this started during the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) – sometimes you think we live in a jungle. That is the reason why those of us who sit in the Land Index Bill for mediation have said no to people leaving their land before they are compensated. This is because the result is this sort of thing. They have moved into the property of a Maasai man in Kajiado County. He has been promised that he will be paid compensation. We have been told that the money is at the National Land Commission (NLC) which has not been reconstituted at the moment. The NLC cannot pay out compensation before the new commissioners are appointed, but then Kenyans are suffering. Is this one of those things that Sen. Mwangi Githiomi‘s Committee can intervene, because Kenyans are suffering in the hands of the Government and these agencies? They have now referred the people of Kibwezi to the NLC which only has the CEO in office. He cannot approve the payments. The case of Thwake Dam is similar. The Chinese are on site but you are told the money is sitting at the NLC. 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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