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    "id": 1278212,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1278212/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo County, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mumina Bonaya",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, we require registration of the community land to be done because the law is in place and it is clear on what needs to be done. We have continued to experience laxity and inaction from the institutions that are mandated to undertake this registration. What we see currently is the fragmentation of rangeland that is supposed to support free-ranging in pastoralism. It creates different competing use of land and that undermines pastoralism. Conservancies are coming up which take up big chunks of land. We have big projects like Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor and the Horn of Africa Road which have taken up big chunks of land. Individuals carve off big chunks of land and try to register them as private land. All these activities disorient how pastoralists undertake pastoralism on this community land. Fragmentation keeps on destroying the movement and access to key natural resources that pastoralists have always been using. As these projects, for example, the LAPSSET and the Horn of Africa Roads continue, we are disadvantaged when it comes to compensation. Every time community members come up for compensation, they are told this is undeveloped land. There is a reason we do not develop our land. It is for practising pastoralism. In that sense, they tell us that there is no reason for compensation, since it is undeveloped community land. For the few who have developed properties on this land, they are told that they cannot be compensated because they do not have registration certificate. The only thing they can compensate is the properties on the land."
}