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    "id": 1064683,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1064683/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, for this point of order and point out that earlier on in the term of this Parliament, I filed a petition on behalf of the people of Ndaragwa, who desired a variation of a boundary, so that we can create a headquarter, an area that we have occupied since 1946. The direction that I was given is that I needed to go through the due procedure so that the Kenya Forest Service eventually recommends the petition to the House. I have done all that. We have spent a lot of money to get the documents done and they are now stuck with KFS. They would never recommend anything to this House. As you look at other provisions of law, it is important to know that which is provided for, that KFS must okay these petitions or requests for petitions. They are using that petition to deny us an opportunity to change the boundaries. It is not to change the boundary so that you allocate yourself land, but to change the boundaries so that we can accommodate headquarters, public facilities that Kenyans themselves have allowed. This is a very crucial thing and if it is not dealt with, we can see a pile up of these issues. I believe if we get that guidance, the Committee can amend that section of the law so that we can ensure the desires of Kenyans are fulfilled. We are a case in point and we have done it the way we were told to do, but we are stuck two years down the line. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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