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    "id": 117817,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/117817/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kivuti",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 55,
        "legal_name": "Lenny Maxwell Kivuti",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we say in a document that land shall only be given to people who want to develop; it is obvious that everybody who wants land will say: “I want to develop it”. Therefore, it does not inform anything to say that any applicant does not wish to develop the land. Everybody will say: “I want to develop the land!” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the same time, you will find several sections which are addressing equity as opposed to sanctity. If you want to distribute land, you must compromise on the sanctity. I submit that it would not be good for this country to compromise on the sanctity of land ownership. That is because the moment you have a title deed--- I remember in Section 62 (b), if you are going back to adjudicate through a land tribunal, who owned what before the land was registered, we shall be going back to the time when the wazungus came here. That means we will actually be undoing all the historical land records that we have today. I do not think that is practical. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we say in Section 66(d)(iv) that we are going to reverse all the title deeds for Government land in the Coast Province, you can see the impact of that. It is next to impossible. If you do that, you will be brewing trouble. When people own land, you can have trouble in the family, clan, tribe or nation when you try to reverse land ownership. I would like to submit that some of these clauses need to be relooked into. If we are thinking of redistribution and reversing the titles that have"
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