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    "id": 1112559,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "I dare say that some of those lands have 100 years leases that have expired. Instead of the Government adhering to the new Constitution of public participation to call the original owners and ask them what they want, the leases are being secretly renewed at the Ministry of Lands. Somebody who lives in London owns land in Kenya. They visit as a hobby or to holiday with their friends, to show off how they own vast land in a place that they do not live, while the ordinary people are suffering. This has to be stopped. I urge the Committee that will look into this particular Petition to be trend-setting. As Sen. Murkomen has said, we do not want the Committee to come back to this House with superlatives that make no sense to anybody. They will come and say that they have looked at the rights of people and everybody has a right to own land. We know that! What about the dispossessed? Do they not have rights? I sympathize with the people of Samburu. I support the Senator for Samburu and want this matter to be looked at in depth, far and wide, so as to restore justice to the people who have been dispossessed historically and in contemporary times, and that is not right. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Petition. When it comes to hearing in the Committee, I ask Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe to invite some of us to come to the Committee as friends of the Committee to offer our professional experience and legal training, to help solve problems that are not necessary to be part of our current history in this country. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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