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    "id": 138622,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/138622/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Gunda",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 25,
        "legal_name": "Benedict Fondo Gunda",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. The Ministry of Lands is one Ministry which needs the assistance of this House for it to be able to discharge its mandate. The Minister has told us that over the past few years, there have been very little funds consistently. However, they have so many things they would want to do, to enable the Ministry perform and Kenyans own land and so on. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, one thing which I think, as a Parliament we need to do to assist this Ministry is to leave the Appropriations-in-Aid (A-in-A) which arise from revenue collected with the Ministry, so that they can use it to do what they want to do. If they can collect Kshs6 billion per year, surely, they could use that money to do computerization which the previous speaker talked about. It is not only that, they also have the National Lands Policy to deal with. They will need money for this, yet it has not been allocated. We are talking of land adjudication in every part of the country where adjudication has not taken place. Where will the Ministry get the money to do this adjudication if, as a Ministry, they have not been allocated those funds? From where I come, there are so many landless people, popularly known as squatters. We need these squatters to be settled. From this year’s Budget, this Ministry has not been allocated a single cent to settle squatters. We will keep coming here asking Questions about settlement of squatters, but the Ministry has not been given the money. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to point out that the monies collected by the Ministry must be left with the Ministry for it to be able to utilize and carry out its programmes. One of these should include settling squatters, especially in Bahari Constituency. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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