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    "id": 1085099,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think it would be fair on the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources, if you just gave a minute or two, for the House to commend the Committee for bringing to this House reports on 12 petitions. I do not think there is any other Committee that has done so. When you look at Sen. Mwangi, you do not think he is capable of bringing 12 reports to the House. However, he has done better than any other committee chairperson in terms of dealing with petitions. I think it is fair that the House registers its appreciation to this Committee. The only substantive thing I wanted to say is that in the Constitution we have established the NLC. There is an Act of Parliament providing the powers of the NLC which includes receiving petitions on issues of historical injustice, eviction, grants and leases. We must ask ourselves as a House, why is it that the public is preferring to bring petitions to the Senate and not to take petitions to the NLC? The challenge I want to give to the chairperson of the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources who has already done an excellent job is that before we close this House later on next year we must ask ourselves whether the NLC we have and the manner in which it operates is the manner in which was envisaged in the Constitution and the National Land Policy because what Sen. Mwangi is doing ideally should be the duty of the NLC. Congratulations, Sen. Mwangi."
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