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    "id": 1019996,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kuresoi South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Kipkosgei",
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        "id": 13393,
        "legal_name": "Tonui Joseph Kipkosgei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity once again to request for a Statement regarding the ongoing land demarcation and boundary alteration in Baraget Settlement Scheme in Kuresoi South Constituency, Nakuru County. Hon. Deputy Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 44(2)(c), I request a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources regarding ongoing land demarcation and boundary alteration in Baraget Settlement Scheme in Kuresoi South Constituency, Nakuru County. The national Government is currently undertaking land demarcation and boundary alteration in Baraget Scheme. Once this exercise is complete, it will see more than 300 families residing in the scheme evicted and rendered landless, this notwithstanding the fact that they were settled in the scheme by the same Government in 1999, following the degazettement notice of 2nd October 1997 and issued with title deeds. The people who settled on the land were victims of the 1997 Lare tribal clashes. Regrettably, the exercise is being undertaken despite a court order stopping the process. Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is worth noting that a lot of resources have been put on the development of the area through among other things, construction of public infrastructure projects such as schools, hospitals, roads, electricity, water as well as individual residents developing their farms and constructing permanent houses. The persons residing in the said areas are now living in distress and anguish. It is against this background that I seek a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. In the Statement, the Chairperson should address the following concerns: 1. Why is the Government demarcating land and altering boundaries on the same area that people were settled more than 20 years ago and issued with title deeds following the degazettement of this on 2nd October 1997? 2. Why are the Ministries of Environment and Forestry, Interior and Co-ordination of National Government disobeying a court order stopping the said process? 3. Could the Government first consider engaging the affected families resettling and fully compensating them for their land and other properties before carrying out evictions? 4. What is the fate of schools, hospitals and other public infrastructures in the settlement area which will be affected by the demarcation of boundaries? Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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