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    "id": 1037649,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1037649/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The two petitions that have been presented are on land matters and one that has been presented by my neighbour Hon. Chonga shows the situation at the Coast in terms of land, especially in Kilifi. The Petition presented by Hon. (Ms.) Sabina also touches on land in Kilifi. It is the same story. Both petitions tell the same story. The land they are claiming in Kilifi was acquired the same way as the one that Hon. Chonga has presented. The land that Kagaa Farmers are claiming is in my constituency. It has left very many families displaced. And to claim that they were sent away from that land is not true. They came and sub-divided the land. I do not know how they got the titles. Now there is a power line by the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) that was passing there and a lot of money was to be given to them. We have asked the Government to buy off that land from Kagaa, but the fact remains that they did not get that land legally. They grabbed some land in Kilifi and gave it a strange name ‘Kagaa.’ This country needs to address the issue of land at the Coast. When we move into the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process, I would like to move an amendment in the Report, to have all the title deeds that were illegally obtained revoked and the land given back to the people there. I will do that so that we can settle a story that has taken very many years and the suffering of the people at the Coast. Therefore, I support Hon. Ken Chonga because I know the suffering of the people there, and also tell Hon. Sabina Chege that she needs to tell her people to surrender the land and give it back to the people of Kilifi so that we can continue to exist peacefully. Thank you very much."
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