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    "id": 1110954,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1110954/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I hear your guidance but the Laikipia incident will be replicated if this House does not act accordingly. I have seen people displaced from their homes. Not a long time ago, I brought a Question to this House requesting the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning to give a status report of all public utility land in Syokimau. There are known land grabbers in this town who just go to Mavoko because there is a lot of land there. They identify land. If it is yours or your neighbour’s, they go to the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and come with a title deed. That is not any different from what happened in Laikipia. If you identify a plot that is not developed and then you come up with a title deed and claim that you should go to court, you actually frustrate the owner of that land! It is unfair! Most of those lands are owned by retirees of this country. So, I agree with you that we must, as a House, relook into the Land Act and see how we can address this matter. In fact, it is about implementation because those land grabbers are working in cahoots with the police, the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and the NLC. A criminal is a criminal. There is no difference still when it is a herdsman taking his animals to graze in a farmer’s maize farm. Most of these people live in urban areas. They rely on those plots as their retirement package. It is high time the Departmental Committee on Lands relooked at this issue, particularly with regard to Mavoko. It feels so bad when I see someone from, say, the North Eastern part of this country going to Mavoko and claiming to own 1,000 acres and that it is his grandparents who were there before. I know very well that the ancestors of Mavoko are members of the Kamba and Maasai communities. We need to be very serious. Otherwise, I can see a war. I can see clashes. So, I want to warn those people who are getting title deeds from the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning."
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