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    "id": 1003839,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is a very important matter. A title deed in any jurisdiction is sacrosanct. Nobody can wake up and say, ‘this title deed is to be done away with.’ There was a time a Cabinet Secretary made a careless statement that title deeds were mere pieces of paper, which brought a lot of problems in this country. If, indeed, the Cabinet Secretary says that the land belongs to the Forest Department, his starting point should be: At what time was it alienated, who was in charge of the forest department and how was it alienated when the Forest department was in charge? That is where they should start and prosecute those who did that. The KMA estate is owned or rather was constructed and developed by doctors. You cannot say that doctors grabbed land from the Forest Department; they must have purchased this land from somebody. As a lawyer, a purchaser for value without notice gets good title. The Cabinet Secretary cannot just wake up in the morning and say that he is going to revoke titles without due process. If there is any case, and I suspect he has not, let him go to the NLC or the Lands court - we have the environmental and lands court - and prosecute his case. If the Government wants to revert any land to the forest, yet it is the same Government that issued title deeds and approved settlements and drawings for construction, then the Government has a duty to compensate adequately and promptly anybody being dispossessed. We do not want to have rule of the jungle in this country, where you just see bulldozers coming and putting down your property without any regard as to whether you have bank loans or whether you have invested your entire savings of life and pension and somebody so uncaring just comes and tells you that is Government’s land. Government is people and people are government. We should protect our people against any arbitrary use of power by anybody in power."
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