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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
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        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Vote. I would like the Minister, while replying, to assure the House that the Sessional Paper that we have been waiting for will be coming to this House soon. It has taken a long time. We have been waiting for a comprehensive land policy for a very long time. It is only until a few weeks ago that we were happy to learn that the Cabinet had eventually passed the draft land policy. We are hoping that it will soon come to this House. We would like to assure the Minister that we will be supporting it. We will do so knowing that land is a very critical and sensitive matter. When we look at what has happened in this country for many years starting from Independence, we shed blood because of land. When we look at what happened in 1992, 1997 and 2007, it is because of land that we have shed innocent blood in this country. It is not because of Orange Democratic Party (ODM) or Party of National Unity (PNU), Ford or KANU. It is because of land that we did shed blood. So, we need the Government to prioritize land issues because it is a ticking time bomb and unless it is addressed, it is something that will explode and tear this country apart. I say so because we have had a serious problem of landlessness and squatters. These are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who have been around for many years. Since last year, we have been hustling to settle IDPs. In this year’s Budget, we have set aside some money towards the settlement of IDPs. However, we failed to recognize that the longest IDPs are the squatters. Kenyans who have been landless and refugees in their own motherland since Independence are also Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). We are all hoping that this year in this Budget, there would be a provision for settlement of the landless and squatters. In the last Budget, there was nothing. In the previous Budget, we had a provision of about Kshs1.3 billion which went towards purchase of land, Solio Ranch in"
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