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    "id": 926149,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was waiting for this chance. You are there to direct the House. The two Members of Parliament from Narok County are telling this House - and we have listened to them - that there is something amiss. At the beginning, I was wondering whether I should support this Report or not, but given what I am hearing from these elected Members of Parliament from Narok, we have to revisit this issue. From what the Chairman presented, so far 570 acres have been acquired and they were looking for 876 acres, but the requirement for the airspace for this facility is 5,000 acres. We have that disparity. There is also the issue of the impact assessment that was not done. We are all Kenyans. There is the possibility of people coming in to speculate. Brokers are there. Many people would like to have the Report, but give the Committee more time to engage the leadership of Narok. It will be better that way than us rushing to pass the Report. More importantly, as somebody mentioned, we are talking about 5,000 acres that are required. The Committee went and found out and agreed with the personnel from the Air Force. We have to acquire the 570 acres while we await the 4,000 acres later next year. Knowing that the NLC officials are out of office because of corruption, we are getting into a situation where there will be a lot of speculation. Brokers will come in. I will not be surprised if there will be killings because of the conflicts and the money. We will have problems in Narok and prices are bound to go up. They will acquire 570 acres and thereafter look for another 4,000 acres. I can tell you for sure the prices will be more than triple what they are currently. There is a provision to have that military base in the area that has been identified for the security of this country. There is also a possibility of acquiring it compulsorily. Compulsory acquisition is in the Constitution as long as you can resettle the people elsewhere for the benefit of the country. Let us do that once and for all rather than buying in bits because you are bound to have speculators and brokers killing each other. This happened in my area. A road was supposed to pass through an area, people came from nowhere and bought the land yet they knew what was happening. The prices went up. I will table a Motion in this House because of that. The Chairman is here. Please, take your time. Let us go back and look at this, so that if you have to buy 5,000 acres, buy it at once rather than waiting until things are out of hand. Given the level of corruption in this country, this is a hot one. We better defer it. I do not support the Report. Let us go back and reconsider it."
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