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    "id": 1126088,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1126088/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": "surrendered by the Estate - the 539 acres of land. We have also recommended that the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, the National Land Commission (NLC) and the County Government of Taita Taveta should engage the local community for concurrence during the extension and renewal of leases for the Taita Sisal Estate when they expire. That is very important. Most importantly, as pointed out by my Chairman, this problem is largely because of a rogue group called Mwasima Mbuwa Welfare Association that has been collecting money from desperate wananchi and squatters in the name of trying to help them get land that does not belong to them. Those people have been engaging in courts and doing all manner of things. The Committee has recommended that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) should investigate that group for fraudulent activities targeting the squatters and members of the public. If found culpable, it should be subjected to due legal process within six months of adoption of the Report. That is very important because we have such groups all over the country - brokers who come together and create problems trying to target private land. That will be a lesson to such groups not to engage in such fraudulent activities. We ask the DCI to take up that matter and protect the enjoyment of private land rights by the Taita Sisal Estate, and at the same time, the enjoyment of land by the squatters. As stated by the Chairman, the Committee has been able to look at all the recommendations by the Departmental Committee on Lands."
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