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    "id": 1102240,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to comment on this petition brought to the Floor of the House by our colleague Sen. Khaniri. I want to begin by saying that it is a shame that we are still talking about squatters 58 years after Independence. It is even a bigger shame that there is now competition even among the squatters on who is the original squatter and who is not. That is a conversation that a country that has been independent for the past 58 years should not even be having. It baffles me how a Kenyan citizen by birth can be a squatter in their own country. The most baffling thing about this is that I am very sure these 36 Kenyans who have signed on behalf of many other original squatters at some point in their lives have been called upon to sing the national anthem. They sing that; “Justice be our shield and defender. May we dwell in unity, peace and liberty. Plenty be found within our borders.” How is justice the shield and defender for these people who according to their petition started pursuing this matter as early as 1979 and to date a resettlement or solution has not been found. Mr. Temporary Speaker, I thank God that today as we discuss this Petition, the Senate Majority Leader is in the House. He will definitely take up this matter not just with the Committee, but to the Government that he represents and defends on the floor of this House that this is an issue that we cannot deal with. A time has come that this country must do away with this conversation about those squatters. This is because if you have even one squatter in any corner of this country, even those landowners who have huge pieces of land, the land ownership is a sham. I also want to thank Sen. Khaniri for doing this on behalf of petitioners largely drawn from Nandi County. The Senator for Nandi is here. Every effort must be made between the Senator for Nandi, the Committee to which this Petition will be taken and the leadership of this House to ensure that this conversation about squatters who first petitioned the Government in 1979, their matter is settled and resolved, once and for all. With those remarks, I support the Petition."
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