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    "id": 1353183,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I rise to support the Petition. The issue affecting the people of Koibem and Ngerek villages in Chepkumia Ward is a historical one of injustice and unfairness. Government agencies, more specifically the NLC and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, have really failed to address the issue of the landless people. The people of Koibem gave out their land, which was very rocky and uninhabitable. Government officials, through the KFS, asked them to move to an excised area out of the Nandi South Forest. When they reached there, they were not issued with title deeds. The Public Petitions Committee should visit the site and look at the predicament of these people in Ngerek and Koibem villages and get first-hand information, so that this issue is settled once and for all. Nandi County has so many squatters. This is a county which bore the brunt of colonialism. Many people were moved away from their land. We have thousands of squatters in Chemelil. As a Member of Parliament, I have been appealing to the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development and the NLC to ensure that all these people are settled. I thank you, Hon. Speaker. As Members of Parliament, we shall attend the Public Petitions Committee. We also want them to visit the people."
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