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    "id": 1155215,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1155215/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Petition by Hon. Feisal on behalf of the people of Tumbe village. If you listen to the Petition carefully, you will realise this is a matter that started in the 1990s. The reason why these people are yet to be given title deeds, even after the community has gone to court and the land adjudicated baffles everybody. As many Members have said, the question of land is a very emotive issue. A few weeks ago, I was in Kwale particularly Msambweni Constituency. It is shocking that a whole 3,000 acres in Gazi village is owned by one family and almost half of Shimba Hills in Kwale is also owned by one family. If you read through this Petition, you will see the problems of land in this country emanate from political patronage and state capture of our Republic since we became an Independent State. In this Petition, the Petitioners are telling us that many people who were allocated this land on paper, were campaigners of the then Member of Parliament who is named in the Petition. Therefore, as a House, we must take this issue of land more seriously than it has been by successive regimes, more so in the Coast Province and particularly, the counties of Kwale, Taita Taveta and Kilifi. If from the early 1990s the people of Kwale…"
}