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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "This Motion brings a very critical matter that goes beyond even the issues that he is raising: Policy. Hon. Mwenje is a Member of Parliament in a Nairobi constituency and so am I. The history of land in this city is scary. To imagine that there are squatters in Nairobi in a place that has been a city with a history replete of disinheriting of people… The people we call squatters in Dagoretti South Constituency today, were actual owners of the land where they are being called squatters today. In fact, in the city, they are not called squatters. They are called people living in a place called ‘parking’. I never get to understand how these places are called ‘parking’. That you are packed in an area by the colonialists so that you can be unpacked whenever they wish to unpack you. We cannot discuss about land issues or bring about new policies without revisiting history. The reason we have such big problems with land in Kenya is because we suffer from colonial policy hang-ups. The Crown Land Ordinances of 1902 and 1915 are the founding documents that led to disinheriting people of their land in Kenya. These are the laws that inform the historical injustices that we suffer from since the colonial era to date. So, I commend Hon. Mwenje, who is a ranking legal practitioner. By bringing this Motion, he pierces our conscience to start re-looking at our land policies wholesomely. We have had this practice that when a matter on land comes up, we come up with some law at some small corner to try to resolve the small mischief. We have never attempted to attend to the broader land issues. Those issues are bigger than the small laws that we make in those small corners. I encourage Hon. Mwenje to take up this matter further and draft a Bill. That way, we can start attending to land issues which are not only limited to historical injustices, but also to small issues about squatters and big thuggery happening in lands offices across the country. We need to address land issues in this country holistically, once and for all. Land titling in this 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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