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"speaker_name": "Marsabit County, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Naomi Waqo",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support this Motion. We know that our country is growing and the population is increasing day by day. We are experiencing this excessive fragmentation of land where some families even have nowhere to bury their loved ones. We also know very well that some of the incidents that have happened of late, of people killing family members or committing suicide, is as result of the frustrations they face because they have nowhere to place their heads. They cannot share the land that is there because it is too small and they have no money even to buy land elsewhere. There are those who own large tracts of land which is not utilised. We are in a country where many rich people own huge tracts of land that they are not using. The land is underutilised. Even when it comes to selling land, the prices are quite high such that the ordinary citizen cannot afford it. In fact, if they can be encouraged to donate to the poor that live around there, maybe, that will help. Today, we see that it is the poor struggling to buy from the rich. The poor struggle to save every coin they have so that they can get some space where The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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