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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Chepalungu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Victor Koech",
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    "content": " Thank you very much for this opportunity. Equally, I would like to congratulate the Member who has come up with this Motion. He has enabled us to discuss, in detail, what can be done so that the Ministry identifies the real owners of these lands. After identification, the Government can move with speed to give proper documentation to owners occupying land legally, and take action against those occupying land illegally. May I take this House back as I thank the Member who came up with this Motion. It is to a Question I had asked the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development when he was in the House to answer Questions. I had given particular attention to squatters living in my constituency. Although squatters are mostly in urban centres, Members of Parliament coming from rural constituencies equally face the same challenge. I am particular about owners of the land next to Siongiroi, in a small village called Legetetiet. They gave out land to the Government and they were promised title deeds for their land, but it is now three decades and nothing has been done. I asked whether the Cabinet Secretary could take action on the same so that people living there can get proper documentation of their land. That would help the people and the squatters. The husband to the Member for Njoro Constituency passed on yesterday. May his soul rest in peace. He was still fighting for his people, who are squatters. They are not even squatters! They have titles but their land has three terms, as was mentioned by Hon. Ng’eno of Emurua Dikirr. The land there still has beacons and the people cannot use the title deeds because their land is under caveat. It is about time the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development and the Cabinet Secretary came up with a clear policy on lifting the caveat because our people cannot continue living with the same challenges. It is the same challenge 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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