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    "id": 1213646,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1213646/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyatike, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tom Odege",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to present a Petition on delayed adjudication and settlement of squatters after the expiry of lease of Macalder Mines Limited land. I, the undersigned, on behalf of the residents of Nyatike Constituency draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT, Macalder area which is approximately 3000 acres is among the ancestral land belonging to the people of Nyatike Constituency which was given up through a mining lease to the Macalder mines Limited in 1935 and conducted mining in the land until 1966; THAT, the leasing of the land made the rightful owners landless and squatters despite Macalder Mines Limited segregating portions of the land for residential and open mines. The locals became compound managers, domestic workers and guards in the segregated land that the Macalder Mines Limited established; THAT, upon the exit of the Macalder Mines Limited from Kenya in 1970, the land was not fully developed except the residential areas inhabited by gold miners and servant quarters inhabited by local workers; THAT, most landless citizens who had given up their land to Macalder Mines Limited began settling back and farming in the underdeveloped land; THAT, the number of people settling in the land increased between 1970’s and 1990’s when the local chiefs allocated people the said land; THAT, the people who have settled in the land have put it into good economic use, constructed residential houses and commercial centres which are earning them income but the Government has neither adjudicated the land nor issued title deeds; 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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