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    "id": 1278217,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1278217/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "The National Land Commission must take stock of this and regularise how Kenyans are going to settle. There are many people who have been displaced from their homes because of political alignments. For example, in 1992 and 1997 after elections, some people were thrown out of their land because they voted in a particular way. That left them as squatters up to now. The Government must look into issues of settling Kenyans. I just want to refer to a case in Zimbabwe when the former President, Robert Mugabe, decided to regularise land and gave it back to the natives. He was condemned by everybody around the world. He was misunderstood. However, he was solving a problem that would have overblown with time. The squatters in the country are a time bomb. If we do not manage them properly right now, it will happen some other way and it will not be good. Kenyans are on the land and they are procreating. No Kenyan should live in this country when he does not know where he belongs. Sometimes, children are born in those places but they have no home. Some of them have no known home where they can go. It is only that place because they were born and live there. Everything else is around there. It is upon the Government and us to legislate and make sure that no Kenyan lives as a squatter in Independent Kenya. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion. Hon. Mwenje should move further and make it into a Bill and then we can make it a law. We should not pass some of the issues we are talking about here and then they remain on shelves. They can be implemented and Kenyans can benefit from this legislation. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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