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    "id": 1013929,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Githiomi, to take time and canvass this issue. To the best of my knowledge, this is not the first time that we are receiving a petition from the Coastal region with regard to disenfranchisement on land rights and dispossession of property that belongs to them. We, as a House, must sort out an issue with finality. These issues must ceases being bother to citizens who are taxpayers. This House is run by the contribution of taxes that come from the people of that region. The people of Coast deserve to receive an equal share of the good work that this House continues to do. The National Land Commission (NLC) which the constitutionally mandated body to deal with many of these issues gave a very vague ruling. I know that because the people that I represent in this House were also interested parties having been disposed of land by the Queen's Own Rifles. That land up to date continues to be owned by multi- nationals whose home of operations are our former colonial masters. We have not been able to enforce that ruling given by NLC because of the cavalier manner in which it was issued. The NLC has not taken time to ensure that various county governments live up to their expectations as far as land issues are concerned. Recommendation made that the many multi-national companies that do mining and explorations in the various parts of the country need to declare openly the size of land that they control in the Republic of Kenya. Once that declaration is made, then the second state should be to establish how they got that land, in the first place. If the land owned by the multi-national companies was disposed of people, they need to come out clearly and state the repayment plans for people and inhabitants whose land they took. That is yet to be done."
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