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    "id": 1110947,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Speaker. The issue at hand is not just about land; it is a livelihood issue. Almost every year, people in Laikipia have to move because they cannot access pasture. It is a difficult issue. We are dealing with it in the Select Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity. When we gave ourselves a new Constitution and set up the National Land Commission, we thought that the first order of business for that Commission would be to deal with those kinds of hotspots and not go around looking at which leases have not been renewed in Nairobi and other town centres. It is a shame that in 2021, the CS for the Ministry of the Interior and Co-ordination of National Government can go to Laikipia and issue orders that they will kill people and do other things. That is not an issue that you deal with through hard talk. I would like to inform the Chairperson of the concerned Committee that this issue is not just about administration. It is holistic and requires almost the whole Government getting involved in it. We cannot have a situation where, every year, just like the drought, people have to die in Laikipia and yet, we have institutions that should handle those issues. They have budgets for dealing with those issues and yet, they sit in Nairobi in air-conditioned offices, go there for a day or two, issue orders and come back hoping that things will get better. As politicians in this House, we must also tone down and look for long-term solutions to the land problems in those areas. I support the Petition."
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