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    "id": 118653,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the National Land Policy. I would like to begin my contribution by supporting this Policy and point out that it is a great shame that this country has operated without a land policy for up to 30 years. We say it is a shame because, as it has been alluded to by other speakers before me, we have had a lot of mess in this country arising from the mismanagement of land resources in this country. Therefore, this Policy is a very welcome intervention to ensure that we alleviate the problem. All the same, the Policy will take over from the messed up situation we are in. The most important thing is that even as the Policy looks at the issues, it has touched on land issues in Kenya and it has, in my view, recognised that the land policy problems have been a political issue. This is well captured from 1895 when we had colonialism in this country. The policy of the colonialists was very clear. It was to entrench a dominant settler economy while subjugating the African economy through administrative and legal mechanisms. In other words, the whole idea of the colonial administration was to build a settler economy at the expense of the people; taking away land from the people and use their labour. That was the hallmark of the colonial system. When the transition to Independence came, the Policy has also captured that the whole idea of decolonization process represented an adaptive, co-optive and preemptive process which gave the new"
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