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    "id": 1013913,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1013913/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13223,
        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "(a) carry out research on a variety of crops like coconuts, bananas, cashew nuts, sugarcane and sisal; (b) install a water pump; and, (c) grow food for their labourers. THAT in the 1960s, the population of Mkamenyi residents had increased and so, they needed their land back and started agitating for the same; THAT the Sisal Estate refused to give back the land but instead colluded with the police to forcefully extend its boundaries to the people's homesteads; evicting them and putting the land under sisal; THAT those people who agitated for their rights of the Mkamenyi residents were arrested, charged with trespass and some were jailed; THAT on 11th May, 2019, the honourable Senate of Kenya visited Taita-Taveta with the Senate Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources to hear and recommend appropriate actions to solve the land problem in Mkamenyi; THAT in July 2019, the Chief Administrative Secretary of the Ministry of Lands accompanied by land officers in the county, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government officers, the Sisal Estate management and political leaders in the county - except me - met the residents of Mkamenyi and promised to give back the land being illegally occupied by the Sisal Estate to the residents; THAT on 29th October, 2019, the management of Voi Point Limited invited three representatives of Mkamenyi residents to a meeting at Ngutuni Lodge, where they informed them that- (a) the management would give them 35 acres of land instead of the over 150 acres they were occupying and have been claiming; and, (b) the 35 acres which were being offered would be used to settle 28 families occupying the disputed land. THAT the 33 members refused to accept that the offer of 35 acres, claiming that it was not adequate and that they needed more than 150 acres that the residents of Mkamenyi were initially occupying; THAT the management of Voi Point Limited proceeded to do survey and beaconing of the 35 acres of land they promised to offer without involving the residents or the county government and processed a group title deed for the same; THAT on 25th August, 2020, the management of Voi Point Limited invited the residents for the issuance of the 35-acre title deed, but the residents rejected it due to the following reasons- (a) the residents needed more than 150 acres and not 35 acres that they were being offered; (b) the group title deed had names of persons who did not live in Mkamenyi listed as owners of the land; and, (c) the names listed in the title deed as the owners of the land were only six families, living out 22 families; THAT efforts to resolve the matters raised in this Petition with the relevant authorities have proved futile; The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}