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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
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    "content": "The specific step is to have this House help me persuade Government, of which I am part of, to have a land bank so that we have land all the time available for the settlement of squatters and not look for land when there is an emergency like when when we have had the problem of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). But I must say that even as I stand here now, I cannot tell you of any specific steps because if I had a piece of land available to the Government for settlement of squatters, then I would not hesitate to take specific steps. But at the moment, we are lacking budgetary allocations for this very important undertaking. The problem is that, and I think Dr. Otichilo would agree with me, our attitude about land is that land is static, land is not dynamic so that in Government planning, we need a change of attitude that unless we treat land for what it is, that it is the platform on which all development takes place and that it is an important resource. If we do that, probably in the future, we may be able to resolve the problem that you are talking about. I am struggling and this Parliament last year made its voice very clear about the need to settle squatters. I, as Minister for Lands, have also tried but in the larger sector which includes the agricultural sector, we are given very peripheral support in terms of budgetary allocations."
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