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    "id": 1034547,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1034547/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "enough land issues. Galana-Kulalu will become another big land issue and yet, again, at the Coast. There have been attempts to reduce issues of land at the Coast, but you can see that the people at the Ministry of Lands and Government officers are now creating another problem. Galana-Kulalu was supposed to be a national food basket, but it has moved from the original objective to now people wanting to sub-divide the land. There are people who have been earmarked to be given that land. We have been requesting for a meeting to participate and consult on this, but the Government keeps on dodging those meetings. Two meetings have been scheduled, but the Government does not seem to be keen and so, they have been all postponed. There is no commitment to engage the people at the Coast to discuss the Galana- Kulalu Project. Eventually, we shall have a problem like we have had in areas like Mpeketoni, Lamu and Tana River. You saw the crashes that cropped up. It behooves the Government to ensure that the right things are done on matters of land, especially at the Coast. They have become very emotive. What we are asking the Government to do is only one simple thing: Call us to the table to discuss Galana-Kulalu. If you want to subdivide that land, give it to the community because they have issues of land. You want to bring in people from other places, allocate them 10 acres and then say this is a Government project. So, what we are saying is that the Committee that is handling this matter needs to put into consideration that they should not be going into history that they created another problem at the Coast in terms of land. I thank you."
}