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    "id": 1220986,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. The issue of land is a very sensitive because as much as it is a social issue it is also an economic issue. Land is an asset for the people and it is used to enable people to acquire some little wealth for themselves. Since Independence, the issues of land have remained unresolved. The Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development has in the past been classified, as the most corrupt. When you go to the Ministry and ask for your file, you will be told the file cannot be found and yet it was left on the desk of a certain officer. When you go there, a messenger follows you and tells you that he is able to help you if you can produce some ‘lunch.’ If you give the ‘lunch’, you will come back in the afternoon and find your file there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I sympathize with the people of Jamii Bora in Kajiado County because this is a practice that not only affects them, but the whole country. I remember when I was the Provincial Planning Officer (PPO) for Coast Province in Malindi, somebody sold land to a certain influential person in Nairobi. However, when they went now to do the actual survey of the land, they found that it was in the Indian Ocean. Money had been paid to the vendor, but he had already left the country. This issue of land adjudication requires improvement in terms of technology so that we reduce human contact. It is too much human contact that creates corruption. When you deal with so many people and everybody wants to take something small, the"
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