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    "id": 1183499,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Masaba, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clive Gisairo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to thank Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi for bringing such a Motion to this House. As most speakers have said, land is a very emotive topic. Hon. Mbadi addressed me here and said he knows how my people have problems with land fragmentation. The main issue here when it comes to land, would be to look at it from a different angle. This country needs to invest in education. The more our people are educated, the more the need for owning small pieces of land will diminish. I have many friends from other continents. I have never once heard any of them telling me that they own pieces of land. That is a behaviour in Africa. I remember my father used to tell me and my five brothers, “my sons, I do not have land to give you, the only piece of land I can give you is education.” True to that my siblings and I, have never looked at what size of land our father had. This country needs to invest in education. The moment we invest in education, these young men and women will go out there to fend for themselves and not look back to go and fragment the little that there is. With continued fragmentation, we continue to make the food shortage situation even worse. So, while we all claim to own a piece of land, we all struggle to feed our families. Let this Government invest a lot in education, hence reducing the pressure on land. It is not a must for someone to own land. That is the message we should have to our people. Not owning land does not make you a failure in life. There are many ways of owning assets and land is not the only asset."
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