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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "hope that as they do this, they will be compensating the communities that were exploring and exploiting the natural resources. Priority should be given to the communities that own the natural resources in those areas given the fact that there has been a big problem in areas where there are scarce resources like water and pastures. With recognition and management of the same, this is an action in the right direction. I want to come back to what I had mentioned earlier on. Communities are expanding and land is becoming scarce. This has become a source of conflict in the pastoral areas. We should take it upon ourselves to legislate and get a way forward in areas where we know there is bound to be some conflict because of population explosion. I want to put it on record that we may end up having echo villages where people live in one area and share social amenities like hospitals, water and schools in a centralised place. The other land can be used for agricultural purposes. At the end of the day, if we continue working in a haphazard way as we are doing, we will have problems feeding our population. In the next 20 years or so, it will be very difficult to manage the population. Therefore, putting the land together for general farming is the way forward. I take this opportunity to thank the Departmental Committee on Lands for having mediated on this issue. It is a straight forward issue. I do not think there is anything major for us to debate. I support the Mediated Version of the Land Laws (Amendment) Bill."
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