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    "id": 1316094,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity to also add my voice to this very important Petition. Hon. Speaker, people do not become squatters because they want to; they do so because they do not have a source of livelihood and nothing to rely on. They, therefore, have to look for somewhere to live. These people have been living in that forest for a long time, and I believe that they are putting a lot of effort to be salvaged from the situation they are in, but that has not happened. Now that it has come to this House, I believe that the relevant Committee will use all the powers bestowed upon it to sort them out. We have several categories of squatters in this country. While conducting a public participation exercise, we visited one sugar cane plantation that I will not name for purposes of keeping the business going. We found professional squatters; people who squat on a piece of land and remain there for as long as they want, knowing that the owner will try to beseech or persuade them to leave that land. They finally sell it out and move to another corner of that land. Even as the NLC and the Public Petitions Committee look at this issue, I think there is need for the nation to evaluate the true squatters. This is because we have some who are not true squatters, but are in the business of squatting. Hon. Speaker, I support."
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