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    "id": 1183466,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me a chance to also speak. I have been away for a very long time, but I am now back. I thank the Members who stood with me during that bad time. Land is very important to this country. We live because of food and water. Many people in this country are starving because of where they live, like our brothers and sisters in Turkana and North Eastern. There are no rains there. I concur with Hon. Mbadi’s contribution. There are people in this country who own thousands of acres of land. There is one person in this country who owns 56,000 acres of land. That land is not properly utilised. It is fertile land. Once upon a time, the papers had a story about a Kenyan who buried his mother on a 1,000- acre piece of land. I support this Motion. People own thousands of acres of land that they did not buy. They just grabbed it. They did not buy that land. We need to pass a law to state that if you own thousands of acres and you are not using them, the Government should either buy that land and give it to needy people to use it to produce food for the country or you surrender it to the Government. They own it, but did not get it in a proper way and so, it should be taken. We need to find a method of how we can give such land to the needy people. People can be brought from Turkana to own land in Kitale because this country is for everybody. They will farm and get food to take to their people in Turkana. I thank Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi for coming up with this Motion. Once a Motion like this one is passed, action must be taken so that we can save this country from land grabbers. When I am on a plane, I see forests. When trees are cut in other forested areas, over a thousand people rush there to build temporary houses and grab the forest land. We need to amend the forest laws so that we can protect the forest cover. If we continue to encroach on forest areas, and not take care of our water towers, and most of them have already been taken over by land grabbers, we will all die in 20 years to come. Therefore, once this Motion is passed, it should be implemented with immediate effect. With those remarks, I support."
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