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    "id": 1037665,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ganze, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Teddy Mwambire",
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        "legal_name": "Teddy Ngumbao Mwambire",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. It is very unfortunate to learn that most of the coastal land has been grabbed and the grabbers are walking scot-free. It is very unfortunate, but I believe the recommendations that we are going to give to the Departmental Committee on Lands should be taken seriously. I have listened carefully to the Petition by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health when she was talking about Kagaa Farm, which we are sharing with Hon. Owen Baya. I am even wondering how they got that land. I believe that these issues need to be settled somewhere else rather than them trying to claim that piece of land because it is densely populated. My constituency alone, which has part of that land, has over 20,000 people who have been living there before; yet some people are claiming that, that piece of land is theirs. Some issues might provoke unnecessary bloodshed in this country. We need to make sure that the Government also acts against people who grab such big pieces of land so that people can be settled. On the issue of Hon. Ken Chonga, it is evident that a number of people have been coming down to the Coast to grab land and even give it their names. In the same Kilifi South, we had a piece of land which had been having many disputes. They used to call it Gathecha Farm. Imagine having a farm by the name Gathecha in Kilifi. It was scrapped. We have managed to rescue that piece of land. Now we have another big piece of land with funny names and characters holding it. Hon. Speaker, we are not going to allow such things. It is high time the Ministry and the National Land Commission act on such issues so that we, at least, do not have such characters within Coast Region. Our being very lenient in that region should not be taken as a weakness. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I support Hon. Chonga’s Petition. We will handle the other Petition."
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