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    "id": 1222423,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mark Mwenje (",
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    "content": "Embakasi West, JP): Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that lack of access to ownership of productive assets, in particular to land, is one of the very serious sources of economic and social insecurity for Kenyans; further aware that many communities particularly in rural areas and informal settlements in the urban areas depend on land for their production and livelihood and, therefore, landlessness affects the ability to secure basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter; concerned that for the urban low income dwellers, the only way of accessing land to put up their dwellings has been to take up residence on land that is unfit for human habitation; aware that the Bill of Rights in Chapter Four of the Constitution guarantees every citizen the right to adequate housing and reasonable standards of sanitation; noting that there are very many squatters who have settled on land that belongs to either absentee landlords, un-adjudicated land, public land or community land for long periods of times, with some disputed while others are undisputed; concerned that the issue of land settlement in many urban areas particularly in the informal settlements has remained unresolved, with numerous persons remaining squatters; further aware that Section 7 of the Limitation of Actions Act, 2010 provides for the right to claim for settlement on certain land after the prescribed period; while Section 134, the Land Act 2012 empowers the national Government implement settlement programs and provide for process for doing so; recognising the need for the Ministry of Lands to hasten the process of identifying parcels of land occupied by squatters where there are no disputes from any party, this House resolves that the Government develops and implements a policy for regularisation of the settlement of squatters within a period of two years in accordance to the provisions of Part 9 of 2012 of the Lands Act land to address the challenges facing the said squatters."
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