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    "id": 943259,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/943259/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir, for this opportunity to add my voice in support of the Statement by Sen. Loitiptip. I sit in the Committee on Roads and Transportation. I want to agree with the sentiments of Sen. Cheruiyot that we are living in a time that a wrong impression is being created; that capital projects by Government should take precedence to the right of ownership of property by individual citizens. With regard to the issue of compensation - right from what has been raised by Sen. Loitiptip – we know that there are complaints from the Eldoret bypass. Residents of Kapseret are crying about delayed compensation. If you go to Mashuri in Kajiado County or on the land where Thwake Dam Project sits or the Kibwezi-Mutumwo-Kitui-Ligoni Road, people are crying about delayed compensation. I think it should get to a point where on its own motion, the Senate, as representatives of people from counties, takes a position on what to do with compensation for private property taken by Government to undertake public projects. It cannot be that a few people are bearing the burden of capital projects for the sake of the entire nation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the matter will be brought to the Committee and we will discuss it because it is important for this Senate to give direction. Before one starts any capital project, if there will be any acquisition of private land or property, then prompt and full compensation be done before the projects are rolled out. Currently, we are constructing roads, railways and dams leaving behind hundreds and thousands of impoverished Kenyans without other ways of earning a livelihood."
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