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    "speaker_name": "Aldai, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marianne Kitany",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Petition that you have read today on the resettlement of the residents of Koibem Village in Nandi County. This particular issue also affects an area in my constituency. The Nandi South Forest which is being talked about borders my constituency and the neighbouring constituency, Emgwen, where these people were resettled. I also have a group of people who were resettled from Bonjoge Forest and taken to the same Nandi South Forest in an area called Bonjoge. At the time of resettling them, some of them were not resettled. As we speak today, some of them still live in Bonjoge forest or the demarcated land that is called a forest. As this Petition goes before the Public Petitions Committee, it is important for the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development to realise that they need to implement all the pending re-locations that were supposed to have been done for the people, especially for ones who were supposed to go to Nandi South Forest. Few people who lived in the rocky areas were removed from Bonjoge Forest and taken to Nandi South Forest. However, their portion of land has never been allocated to them. As this Petition is looked at, I will appreciate it if they can widen it and ask the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development to fully implement all the re-locations that have been requested. As you can see and hear from all Members here, we have so many Petitions on land matters, especially on re-location of people which are still pending within the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development. We wish they can also amalgamate all the pending resettlements and resettle them once. My headquarters is in Kobujoi which is land that was excised from Nandi South Forest. However, up to today, it has never been degazetted and given to the various ministries or Government entities that occupy it. We wish the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development and Ministry of Environment and Forestry will fast-track the proper excise of the land and relocation of the people living in the forest. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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