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    "id": 117838,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/117838/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Shaban",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
        "slug": "naomi-shaban"
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    "content": "Although we were given this land, we were finally told; “Oh; this is private land, you cannot touch it.” How can it be private land when the law has not been followed? How can it be private land when the land was not set aside and even the councils and the communities were never involved? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, people have suffered and I am very happy that the Minister for Lands has specifically pointed out the serious issues in the Coast Province. This is because the Coast Province has got issues which are so different from the rest of this country. Everybody thinks that the Coast Province is where they can learn how to play football as far as land is concerned. Everybody goes down to the Coast Province and that is the only place where other communities cannot really fight when it comes to land grabbing. Our land has been grabbed with impunity. We have land which was grabbed by individuals, people who knew the law very well and decided to flout it. We would like to see that land reverting back to the communities. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kenya Wildlife Services which used to be known as the National Parks then, also grabbed land from the communities. We have trust land which has been annexed to the parks. We want to see the Minister for Lands repossessing that land and giving it back to the communities. The people of Taita-Taveta who house the biggest national park in this country, even after they had taken away all our land to be a national park, they still took our trust land. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister for Lands has got a lot of work to do; he has a very big war ahead because nobody would want to hear these corrections being done. Unscrupulous individuals have decided to enrich themselves using our community land. I want to support the Minister and we hope that Kenyans are going to have a better---"
}