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"speaker_name": "Garsen, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Guyo",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to read Petition No. 031 of 2021, regarding the de-gazettement of specified Agricultural Development Corporation Land in Garsen Constituency. I, the UNDERSIGNED, on behalf of residents of Garsen Constituency in Tana River County, DRAW the attention of the House to the following: THAT, the Galana Ranch Scheme spans over 1.75 million acres and was established in 1968 as a game and trading company, before being acquired by the National Government through the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) to provide a buffer zone between Tsavo East National Park and surrounding communities to undertake beef ranching and off-take management during drought as well as for production of biogas; THAT, through the intervention of His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki in 2006 and His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2013, the Agricultural Development Corporation was directed to release 250,000 acres to residents of Assa and Kone Locations near Tsavo East National Park, with pastoralists being granted access to the River Galana Watering Corridor to water their livestock; THAT, the proposed sub-division involves 100-acre blocks totalling 200,000 acres categorized as small scale, 10-acre blocks totalling 300,000 acres categorized as settlement schemes, 10,000-acre blocks totalling 400,000 acres categorized as large scale, 5,000-acre blocks totalling 200,000 acres categorized as medium scale one and 1,000-acre blocks totalling 200,000 acres categorized as medium scale two under the Galana Ranch Scheme; THAT, the proposed sub-divisions will adversely affect the entire community which primarily depends on the land to graze the large number of livestock that includes herds of cattle, sheep, goats and camels, thereby creating potential for protracted conflicts in future due to inadequate size of grazing land particularly in view of the fact that the land in question is currently occupied by the community, with the ADC occupying less than 10 per cent of the entire acreage; THAT, the 250,000 acres earmarked for the community is extremely inadequate, and ought to be increased to a minimum of 600,000 acres in view of the current demand for grazing land; THAT, efforts to have these proposed sub-divisions revised by the relevant authorities have not yielded any fruit; and, THAT, the issues in respect of which this Petition is made are not pending before any court of law, or other constitutional or legal body. THEREFORE, your humble Petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Lands: (i) Intervenes to facilitate timely de-gazettement of the said land to convert it to community land for grazing and related communal use by residents of Assa and Kone Locations of Garsen Constituency, as well as de-gazettement of the River Galana Watering Corridor on both sides of the Tsavo East National Park and the ADC land; 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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