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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibra, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Orero",
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    "content": " This matter of land is a Nairobi affair. All the Nairobi Members of Parliament, we are the most affected as Nairobi citizens. It is very emotive. I must thank my good friend, Hon. Mwenje, for having brought this Motion. He is a first-hand person who knows what land problems are. His constituency, for a long time, has had land issues. That does not mean that all the other constituencies are good. I am from Kibra Constituency where we have the highest number of squatters. At the same time, it is in Kibra where the land rate value is the highest in this country. People do not know that Upper Hill is in Kibra a place with the highest value of land. Squatters pay rent to absentee landlords who do not have title deeds. It is about time the Government came up with a policy that those who have stayed in places for a long time should be given title deeds because they have been born and bred in those places. We cannot have a country where after 60 years of Independence people are still being called squatters. In my constituency, every successive Government has always promised to give people title deeds. This has been happening at the whims of the leadership and after a Government has gone out, the problem persists. The leadership of these constituencies must be consulted and involved so that the distribution and regulation of land ownership is sorted once and for all in this country. This has been a problem since Independence. It is unbelievable that some people in this country are still landless and are called squatters. They live without knowing what tomorrow… Hon. Temporary Speaker, allow me to continue, you know Kibra is the biggest slum in this country."
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