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    "id": 1398755,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "there is a sad case of an old man who died four years ago and is still lying in the morgue. He is from a place called Kegoye within Vihiga Municipality. When Vihiga was gazetted as a district by the then President Moi, some people were relocated to create space for the construction of the district headquarters. This old man was one of them. They were relocated to a place in Lugari Forest. When they went there, they found that the land had complications. They returned to their original land. They have stayed there for years, and the old man died there. When he died, they took the body to the morgue, but they could not bury it because the county government contested and said that the land was within the Vihiga Municipality. Up to date, the body of the old man is still lying in the morgue. I brought up this matter when I was in the National Assembly in 2021. The then Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Hon. Farida Karoney, committed to Parliament that the matter would be resolved in six months. It is now approaching two-and-a-half years, and nothing has been done. Is the Cabinet Secretary aware of this matter? What specific action will she take to address this matter, so that this family can bury their old man as soon as possible and stop incurring mortuary fees? Given that even though the county government has refused to give them permission to bury their dead, they are still occupying the land to date."
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