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    "id": 1114980,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1114980/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "Committee on Trade, Industry and Co-operatives and the Departmental Committee on Regional Integration into this Petition because of the serious trade imbalance between Kenya and our neighbours. Some of us are very serious farmers. We are being forced to buy animal feeds from our neighbouring countries where they are cheaper than they are here in Kenya. You cannot compare the cost of those feeds in the neighbouring countries with what is being sold in this country. This does not only apply on animal feeds. If you look at pesticides which are used by most of the farmers in this country, they are cheaper in the neighbouring countries than they are in this country. I believe there is a very serious problem in this country which, as Members of Parliament, through these committees, needs to address once and for all. On the other two petitions regarding land, there is also serious land issues that involve squatters. You find that once land has been purchased by a SACCO, the people who have been occupying those lands for over 50 years are asked to leave. Through the Departmental Committee on Lands, they need to work and ensure that all Kenyans have the right to live wherever they live and to ensure that justice is made for those people who do not have land in this country. If people have occupied a certain parcel of land for a long time, then a SACCO through brokers buy it and decide to displace those people…"
}