{"id":1057228,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1057228/?format=json","text_counter":17,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Makueni, WDM-K","speaker_title":"Hon. Daniel Maanzo","speaker":{"id":2197,"legal_name":"Daniel Kitonga Maanzo","slug":"daniel-kitonga-maanzo"},"content":" Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. These types of petitions have been common here and I think this is the fourth one. It is high time Parliament sorted this matter once and for all, so that there can be a certain way or a policy on how to deal with evictees in the country. From 1988 to now is quite a long time and these evictees must have acquired some rights, even within the law, for having been out of their own land for such a long time. It was at a time that even the land law had not changed and a number of other policies had not come into place. While the Committee looks at this, it will be important that we have a common way of dealing with these sorts of things so that every other day we do not deal with forest evictees. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."}