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    "id": 1002929,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1002929/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Ongondo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13366,
        "legal_name": "Charles Ong'ondo Were",
        "slug": "charles-ongondo-were-2"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to present Public Petition No.13 of 2020 regarding mapping, demarcation and degazettement of land within Kodera Forest in Kasipul for the settlement of the community living along God Agulu and Lidha Beats. I, the UNDERSIGNED, on behalf of the residents of God Agulu and Lidha Beats within Kodera Forest Zone in Kasipul Constituency, Homa Bay County, wish to draw the attention of the House to the following: 1. THAT, Article 27 of the Constitution provides that every person is equal before the law and has equal protection and benefit of the law; 2. THAT, Article 61(1) of the Constitution provides that all land in Kenya belongs to the people of Kenya collectively as a nation, as communities and as individuals; 3. THAT, in 1950, following an outbreak of a skin disease and river blindness caused by unknown insects living in Kodera Forest affected many people living along Awach River, the then South Nyanza County Council engaged residents and agreed that they vacate the land, allow the trees along River Awach to be cut down and the region be sprayed with insecticides so as to kill the deadly insects; 4. THAT, prior to vacation of the land, representatives of the affected community and the then South Nyanza County Council agreed on the boundaries of the land to be vacated by the people and in 1956 the Council cut down indigenous trees at God Agulu and Lidha Beats and planted exotic trees believed to contain poison against the deadly insects; The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}