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    "id": 1024842,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to support the people of Jomvu and be in solidarity with my brother, Sen. Faki, on this matter. The issue of land, landlessness and freedom are all intertwined. Nobody in the world or anywhere can exercise freedom without owning the land upon which that freedom is exercised. If today anybody was to come to Parliament and purport to speak here, they will be declared trespassers. If you came to my home uninvited and tried to exercise your right to speech or movement, I would take you to court and you would be charged with the offence of trespassing on my land. Madam Deputy Speaker, the basis of freedom and liberty is land. Any person who is landless in Kenya or does not have a place that they can comfortably do what they are supposed to do under our fundamental freedoms, are people whose freedoms have been denied. The Jomvu and Mombasa people who, for one reason or other, lost the right to that land are people we must be in solidarity with. The committee to which this matter will be referred to must look at it urgently and fairly, knowing that certain Kenyans are displaced and are, therefore, unable to exercise their right to freedom of any kind. Madam Deputy Speaker, back in my county of Migori and in any other county, there are parcels of land placed under public and community land. They fall under county governments or national Government. When the opportunity to divide them arises, you will find that these opportunities are given to business people and those who know how to approach the determinants of allocating this land. The people who are disadvantaged and do not have voices are locked out. We have large parcels of public land in Nyatike, which are idle, yet we have landless people there. We have large parcels of public land at a place called Lichota in Migori. These parcels of land are now being designed for development, but there are landless people in Suna East and Suna West who do not get this opportunity. Madam Deputy Speaker, I plead with the committee to which this matter will be referred to first know that human beings, who have nowhere else to go, must be"
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