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    "id": 1394343,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1394343/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me support this petition. We have what we call the pedis possessio in legal language. It has also been highlighted by Arnold Toynbee in his theory of land ownership, the First Occupancy Theory. Therefore, land ownership in Kenya is based on the First Occupancy Theory. Those who worked first on the land, occupied, measured and bounded it become the owners. With the coming of Europeans, which reminds me of the Maasai Agreements of 1904 and 1911, and other agreements that were done in Central and Rift Valley, especially Nandi areas, land ownership moved to Europeans through companies. The leases of 99 years and 100 years were thought to be unimaginable. They thought that those leases would never end, but they have now ended. This Parliament must now stand through the NLC to bring back this land to the original owners; the first occupiers of the land. It is never a time bomb because we have to deal with it now. I call upon the Public Petitions Committee to give this matter precedence and start handing over land to the original owners. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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