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"content": "We, as leaders of this country, must protect our people. Ours cannot be a country without people. It is the people who form a country called Kenya. The Bible says love your neighbour as you love yourself. If you are a leader, love your people as you love yourself. We should know that God has given us these positions not to destroy our people, but to protect them. If there was a need to evict these people, there were better ways of doing so, without hurting them. We would have talked to people, involved leaders and negotiated with them. We would have told them that we wanted to expand our airport and they would have seen sense. However, we cannot just go demolishing people’s properties without involving them. The Member for Kamukunji has just spoken about the Kenyans who live outside this country and want to come and invest in Kenya. It is very sad. Some of them invested in Syokimau. One of them was a young man aged 30 years. He built a house there worth Kshs15 million. He was doing odd jobs in Europe and saved all that money to build a home. When he was preparing to come home for Christmas he was called and told that his house had been demolished. As I speak now, we are going to bury a lady who has died because of the Syokimau issue. The lady went there and saw the house being demolished and yet there was a boy inside. She just collapsed and never woke up from that. She never knew whether the boy was saved or not."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as a country, let us fear God. Let us love and protect our people. It hurts me as a Member for Kathiani, if the Government can destroy its people. They do not know what those people are going through."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am hurt."
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"content": "Thank you."
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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a Motion that touches on the souls of Kenyans and I stand to support it."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of land in this country or any country is really the security that wanachi or citizens can have when they get a document from the Government. It is a sad thing in this country that today we are reaching a point where, when you get a land certificate, you do not know whether or not it is an authentic document. Really, you cannot get a guarantee. Ordinary people should never be held responsible for ensuring whether a title deed or certificate is proper or not. This responsibility lies on the Government. How do you expect an ordinary person who goes to the Ministry of Lands, does a search and gets a land certificate, to determine whether that certificate is authentic or not? This Government must take responsibility. It should not wake up one day, after all that has happened, and say that the people did not hold authentic title certificates."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of Syokimau is just one of the characteristics of this Government. It started in my area, when one day the Government forces came and demolished houses belonging to people who used to live in the forest. Those people stayed on the road for 20 years. I wonder whether this Government has some sadists within it. How do you wake up one day and send a bulldozer to a house where you can see some small children and heartlessly demolish it? It is heartless! There must be another way of handling matters rather than this animal like behavior."
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of land and demolition has even gone a notch higher. We saw the other day this Government back down from demolishing some buildings along Mombasa Road. Why was this so? It is because they belonged to influential people and big companies. I do not know whether anything happened. What are you telling the ordinary Kenyans when you say that you cannot demolish a certain building on the road reserve along Mombasa Road because it belongs to such-and-such a company and people know that such-and-such a company belongs to who and who? Then the following day the same Government wakes up and heartlessly goes and demolishes a house like the one for an old lady. I want to quote a lady who appeared in the media and said: “I hate this country.” Surely, we must ask ourselves, as leaders, in this country whether we are creating a country where a lady, pushed to a point and in tears, can go to the media and say “I hate this country.” It is like a child saying: “I hate this woman who is my mother.” This Government must soul-search itself and ensure that, in as much as we are trying to put things in order, first of all, there is equity in law. If a building on Mombasa Road is on the road reserve, let us not be told of any investment. Let it come down. There is no point of bringing down a building of a family of six children in Embakasi, Syokimau or Mombasa, when you want to save some capitalism somewhere along Mombasa Road. This Government is not there just for what I would call “capital” but it is there for the interest of the people."
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