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    "id": 1086129,
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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, Hon. Speaker. I will comment on two of the Petitions, that is, the one by Hon. Charles Nguna and the other one by Hon. Kassim Sawa Tandaza. Yesterday we were dealing with a Report from the Committee on Delegated Legislation on Equalization Fund. In the Report, they had given an elaborate information on where and how other areas within the country were marginalized and they require to be considered for Equalization Fund. In the Government reports, you find that Kitui features almost everywhere that it has been disadvantaged. It is unfortunate that when it came to looking at these issues of areas to be considered as hardship areas, Kitui was not factored in. This was unfair. Maybe it was a political game to disadvantage the people of Kitui. I hope the Committee will get an opportunity to, at least, come up with a clear way of making sure that Kitui is captured among other areas in the country where there are issues. If you go deep to the Coast region, where there were areas that had been considered as hardship areas, they were also removed from the list yet they are still lagging behind. So, it is high time the Committee came up with parameters to gauge which areas should be captured in this one. The other Petition is by Hon. Tandaza. I am even wondering because, in recent times, the appetite levels in this country have risen especially for land from the Coast region. We are wondering because if you go to Kwale, Kilifi, Mombasa, Lamu and Taita Taveta counties, we normally get the same information that people have encroached and grabbed bigger pieces of land. I think it is high time that the Ministry was careful. In case some officials at the Ministry are the ones dealing with these grabbers, then we need to investigate them. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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