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    "id": 920798,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Mwikali in Makueni will understand this if the President has difficulties in the explanation that you have given?’ In an attempt to protect the right to land under Article 40 of the Constitution, it is important for us to say that the right to land is not subservient to the right of the Government doing public projects. Therefore, to respect that right to land, they should pay Mama Njeri promptly if they plan to evict her from her land. They should allow her to look for land in another place. It is not wrong for them to build the road, but they should not evict the land owners. I saw a gentleman shading tears in Nkoroi. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel very bad about this country. Somebody built a beautiful house for his family not knowing that the SGR will pass through his property. He is on a loan that he has not been paid, but the bulldozer we call SANY, demolished his house. The patriotism in that man is gone even if you compensate him. We have killed his patriotism for this country by destroying his home in front of his wife and children. What do you think those children think about their father? They saw their father shed tears in front of cameras. That is how bad it is. I hope that this law will be implemented to the letter. When the National Land Commission is finally gazetted, I hope that the Chairperson will call those commissioners and tell them we have made a law that will ensure that people get value for their land. He should also tell them that people’s right to land must be protected. It does not matter whether it is a nine by nine. Let us give the pride of place to the people of Kenya. It does not matter whether their land is in Isiolo, has no tree or is barren; that land belongs to that community. That way, people might start loving this country. People should vacate on their own volition when they hear that the Government wants to build a hospital or road. The Government should not demolish people’s houses then tell them that they will be paid later. That is wrong and it will never be right for people, like the ones in Nkoroi, to lose their land in that format. Sen. Mwangi is an experienced legislator. The problem in Parliament is not the Members of Parliament. We sat with the Members of the National Assembly who did not have kind words for us, but finally agreed on a version. I believe that all the problems that we have in Parliament will end or reduce if the Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate can have meetings like the ones that we have in the Mediation Committee. We purposed to agree, and we agreed. When this Bill is being signed into law, the effervescent Sen. Mwangi should be there standing next to the President because this is truly an Act of Parliament. I shared the same sentiments with the Leader of Majority in the National Assembly. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I second."
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