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    "content": "flats behind the general hospital. The people of Kakamega are watching. Let those flats be constructed. Do not interfere. Let them get finished we will repossess them and our doctors will reside in them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know how many of you have ever driven not in a hurry to South Coast in Mombasa on your way to Kwale. You drive from Likoni Ferry. On your left, there are plots touching the ocean. They are called beach first row, second raw and so on. On your right, there are the other pieces of land. The poor Digos have stayed as squatters on the right. Those tracts of land have never been adjudicated. However, the ones on the left, adjudication has been done. Why? The rich were after those beach plots and that was why adjudication was done very quickly. They have title deeds. The shame is: When you look at those people on the left side who have title deeds, none of them is a Digo, Giriama or a coastal. You start complaining that the youth are organising themselves as Mombasa Republican Council (MRC). It is the only means they see available to seek redress. This is promotion of insecurity that can be controlled by a sensible government. Even if the Government is sleeping on the job, the NLC should not do the same. Instead, they should be the ones saving us. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this one is a very sensitive one, but allow me to speak about it. The issue of the water towers, specifically the Mau. Rich Kenyans and former presidents of this country moved into the Mau, curved out thousands of acres of land for themselves and they have even put up tea factories in there. They have never been touched. However, when some villagers tried to go there, they were kicked, hit and chased away. Why can the Government find the power, the will and the moral justification to evict the former president who has a tea estate and a factory in Mau for us to be convinced that they want to preserve our forests? This story obtains in many other forests like Aberdares, Kakamega, among others. All of them are being abused. Finally, but not least, I want to speak to the need for us to have a paradigm shift in land tenure in this country. What we are pursuing is not tenable. I read the other day that somebody is drafting a Bill that they want to put a ceiling on land holding."
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