Lady cries in Parliament hearing on demolished houses.

When a Kenyan looks at Members of Parliament of Kenya and cries in pain saying the words, “I hate this country!” It means the members of parliament have failed. Indeed the only thing the members of parliament did not do in the demolition of property was to drive the bulldozers, but are equally responsible for this destruction for not using their constitutionally mandated responsibility to protect citizen’s property from being destroyed by the government.

The Legislative is constituted to protect the citizens by checking the executive does not overstretch its powers especially under the new constitution that is in current use. However in broad daylight private citizens, who had done nothing wrong, were put in the worst mental torture and agony by the very government that is supposed to protect and defend them. The document not yet shown to the public is the order form that authorized the bulldozers to destroy the property. Who signed off the order to destroy private citizen’s property?

The stages of this process can be broken into three.

Stage 1 - Ministry of lands officers manipulate the process and sell land.  According to land commissioner statement signatures were forged and the title deeds, letters of allotment, and even the Gazette Notice relating to the land were all fake as they had no corresponding records in the master registry at the Lands ministry. This means that the problem that had occurred was a failure of the internal system of the ministry of the land. 

Stage 2 – Kenya citizens go ahead and get letters of allotment and titles issued. They start settling in the land and investing millions of shillings to build property. There is no part in the constitution that states a private person is supposed to investigate if a government document issued from a government office is fake. A gazette notice once published is also not fake even if established from fake documents.   

Stage 3 – Someone orders the demolition of the property. This is where the Members of parliament responsibility or the office or president and Prime minister should have come in to protect the public interest first as elected servants of the people who are sworn to protect the citizens of Kenya.

As it stands now the tax payers will lose more money than they should have had to if the members of parliament were representing their interest. The tax payers will pay the money stolen through sell of land illegally by government officials and secondly pay for the destruction of property authorized by someone in the government. The amount that will be assessed to be paid to those whose property was destoryed is another failure of parliament to ensure as little taxation as possible. 

The lady should be paid every penny of money for this pain caused to her. Those involved should be prosectued. The taxpayers will however have to decide 2012 the leaders they will give responsibility 2012. Kenyans should not be paying high taxes because of a failed government. No Kenyan should be driven to the point of saying inside the Kenya legislative house the words, “I hate this country.”