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    "id": 1057096,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think I have administrative issues that must be handled. The petitioners want this matter done expeditiously. The Committee has 30 similar Petitions. Going by its work output, it is easy to think that this Petition will not be resolved within the current parliamentary calendar. It will go into 2023. I was going to say that in the Committee on Liaison, where the big men and women who are Chairs sit together with the Speaker, we must find a method. This Petition will not be determined within the proposed period, if we look at the queue. If you calculate 30 Petitions, including five of mine that have been pending for the last one year, it is easy to assume that this Petition cannot heard by the Committee on Lands, Environment, and Natural Resources within the parliamentary term left between now and the election time. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these people are suffering a great deal. The courts and the people tasked with the duty of handling this matter, including the National Land Commission (NLC) have not helped. These matters of public land should have been dealt with expeditiously by the NLC but the NLC has not managed to help. I would have proposed that we get an ad hoc Committee or another method to consolidate these petitions that are of a similar nature that require the NLC to be heard simultaneously. Alternatively, we can give leave to this Committee to expedite these processes quickly, otherwise, these people are going to suffer. They are going to be evicted. Taita Taveta County has become famous for people who want to grab land, chase away squatters and buy it for a song. It is a county which is famous for these malpractices that have been visited on Kenyans for so long. Those people are so poor and so desperate. This land has got sisal, wildlife, minerals and benefits everybody else except the people of Taita Taveta County. It is very unfortunate that Taita Taveta County is amongst the marginalized counties of Kenya, yet the biggest hotels, the best Tanzanites and all the nice looking gems come from that county. It is actually a contradiction of terms. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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