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    "id": 1353174,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1353174/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, Article 119 of the Constitution accords any person the right to petition Parliament to consider any matter within its authority. Further, Standing Order 225(2)(b) requires the Speaker to report to the House any Petition other than those presented by a Member. In this regard, I wish to report to the House that my Office has received a Petition from Messrs Joel Songol, ID No.5277747, and five others, of Koibem Village, Chepkumia Location, Nandi County, representing Koibem Vilage squatters. Hon. Members, the Petitioners are raising concerns regarding inordinate delay in the issuance of new title deeds to residents of Koibem Village. The residents were moved in 1996 following excision of 1170 hectares in Yala Block of South Nandi Forest to allow resettlement of 351 people who were to be evacuated from the hilly and rocky Koibem area measuring 989.7 hectares. The Petitioners state that until late 1990s, the larger Chepkumia Location was surrounded by South Nandi Forest and the vast Kaimosi Tea Estates, leaving an entry road near the Yala River through thick and sometimes quite insecure forest with robbers running amok, spreading terror, killing people and raping women. Koibem Village was rocky and hilly and located right by the forest. The Petitioners claim that in 1996, the Government of Kenya undertook to relocate the people of Koibem Village from their original land to a block in South Nandi Forest along the Yala River west of Nandi County in exchange and to convert and gazette the original land vacated by the community into a forest. 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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