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    "id": 968341,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "done, the Government should take up the land only where they can pay. This is because if they take all the land, they will value somebody’s land at the end of the project and give them a value of say Kshs2 million, and wait for three years before they pay. At the end of those three years, the value of the land will not be Kshs 2 million, it would have appreciated. Other factors would have affected this and by that time the Government will not pay interest. We directed that the Government should take what they can afford to pay. They should deal with one part and pay fully, and then pay the next phase fully. That will make sure that if they took the land at a certain value, by the time they arrive at point “B”, if the value would have gone up, they pay at that value. The key idea is that we make sure that people get fairness. On the issue of illegal compensation, we directed that there are two forms of compensation. First, people can be compensated for disturbance. Even if you do not have a title deed and run a business within a small project, they still qualify to be called a person affected by the project. There was a misconception that hawkers, people who have small businesses selling fish, mandanzi or whatever should be kicked out, although they have made a livelihood along the same corridor. According to the standards of the United Nations (UN), the truth is that people should be compensated according to what they do and how they are affected by the project. We directed that all the people who had earlier been misjudged to not be worthy of compensation should be compensated as per the requirements of the law. However, the landowners should be paid according to what compensation values for land are. As I finalize, remember that this House passed the Land Value Index Laws (Amendment) Bill. The question of when, how and how much was clearly addressed by what this House passed. On that issue of disruption of business, that is exactly what we agreed on, as I have numerated before. The Committee on Roads and Transportation of the Senate has similar Petitions, almost five of them, but we have not yet--- We have discussed and finalized, but where people have not been paid, it is the same spirit that took us to Turkana. You will remember when there were demolitions in Ole Sirkon, along the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), our Committee went there."
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