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    "id": 1363435,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1363435/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I fully support the Petition. It is very unfortunate that in 2023, we still have squatters in this country. The concept of squatters was brought by the colonial system that dispossessed the African people of their land and pushed them out. It has now become the normal way in our language given the fact that we have been unable to resolve many of these issues that relate to poor people who are landless or land poor. There are many communities in that limbo all over the country; they live less than perfect lives because they do not enjoy their fundamental God-given rights of people who have land to either build, till and make a life out of it. In my view, this Petition is timely and that community should be given every opportunity so that they can possess that land, settle properly as human beings, cultivate, produce and make a life out of it. We should also work on the many other squatters that we have in our communities and country so that we liberate ourselves from this horrible colonial legacy. We should give ourselves and our communities the freedom and the rights that they deserve in their country."
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