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    "id": 1033422,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Petition by Mr. Chelule and congratulate him for taking this bold and decisive action to come to the Senate. As has been said, this is an issue that affects most counties. If, indeed, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and Sen. Sakaja have already drafted a Bill to this effect, it is about time, the moratorium from the court notwithstanding, for you to sit down with the Speaker of the National Assembly and fish out some of the urgent matters that need to be dealt with, especially that particular Bill with regards to county boundaries. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when county boundaries are in places that have titles, it may not be that bad. But when county boundaries involve community land, then there is great danger in people losing their ancestral land and getting disenfranchised. What the Government needs to do is just gazette or de-gazette. If this House is going to take its mandate under Article 96 of the Constitution to actually look after counties and protect them, I think that there is no better protection of counties than ensuring that conflicts do not arise from boundary issues, and that justice is served, especially to counties that do not even have titles to begin with. For instance, in Isiolo and the other counties that surround it, we have community land, and therefore, we do not really have tittles. Others have titles, and therefore, each time there is a boundary dispute, we get disadvantaged and communities are disenfranchised. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a matter that deserves a lot of urgency from this House. We must look for ways in which--- We have talked about land issues, community land issues, titling, community land titling, and we keep talking. Yes, of course, this is a House of debate and talking is our business, but I think outcomes should matter too because we are not seeing any outcomes three years down the road and we have not seen what we have done especially with regard to this."
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