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    "id": 1186572,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1186572/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": "you realise that the Kisii economy is stronger. They have moved on and found other ways of running their economy. They are not seated down salivating at the Maasai land. I think the communities facing land pressure should be more innovative and show their people other ways of making money. They can never get land which belongs to others. In the Republic of Kenya, every community has its land. When it comes to sharing of property, you cannot say that there is a group of people with land and another one without, and so, let us redistribute. That will be a recipe for chaos. In this country, there are people who use land for agriculture. Let us encourage them to use technology to improve their land in a more economical way. Those keeping cattle should use their land to the best of their knowledge. The attempt to use land as if it belongs to the Government has been tried in many countries. During the cultural revolution in China, all land belonged to the State and they were not allowed to make money out of it. When Deng Xiao Ping became the President of China, he encouraged people to become rich. You can only get rich if no policy or law will ever interfere with your land. When you get old and die, your children will inherit what you have. Any policy that dictates that if you are not using your land properly you should be taxed, is wrong. They should take into consideration if one has the capability to engage the land in an economic activity. We must tell our people to take loans and use their land the best way possible. If they are unable to do so, it is their land and nobody should punish them. Why was Kenya doing very well during the Cold War? The countries that became socialist - I do not want to name them because they are friendly nations - tried to get people live in clusters. The rest of the land was to be productive. Who worked on those lands? We must tell ourselves that this country is built on some capitalist foundations. That, we must say. We value our wealth; how I own it, how I use it, and how I dispose of it. I shy to encourage anybody to say that the Government or some policy will have a say on your land if you are not using it. The only person who should have a say is yourself because the title deed you hold over land is called absolute proprietorship. We must never destroy the freelance nature of our land. Once you destroy the freelance nature of our land and bring in all manner of Government policies to interfere with ownership, then you will be destroying the enterprising nature of Kenyans. I urge my honourable friend to separate the two issues. Fragmentation of land is causing less and less production of food. I think we should stop that one. We should encourage more and more non-fragmentation of land. We should stop coveting the large pieces of land that are around. Hon. Speaker, I beg to oppose."
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