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    "id": 142983,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. S. Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Shakila Abdalla",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wonder if the Minister is aware that before Dodori was gazetted, it was fully inhabited by the Bajuni and Boni communities. Since it was gazetted, Lamu District has been depending on relief food which never used to be the case before the gazettement of Dodori. During the Presidential visit to Lamu in 1997, the then sitting Member of Parliament requested the President to degazette Dodori and he gave the directive for the same to be done but nothing was done. In the full council’s meeting in 1998, the degazettement of Dodori National Game Reserve was proposed vide Minute No.42/98 for the benefit of indigenous people. The concern of the people of Lamu is that there is no development which has taken place in the Dodori National Game Reserve. It has neither benefited the community nor the Lamu County Council; the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) or the Government. They have been denied the use of the land to improve their livelihoods. There is the Kenya Marine National Reserve which was again gazetted with the Dodori National Game Reserve which has been grabbed and sold to private investors. People were evicted from there. The same is going to happen to Dodori National Game Reserve. What is the Minister doing? Could he tell us why he would ask the people to leave the national reserve and in return give the other grabbers a chance to grab the land? As it is now, there is an NGO called Kibodo which is doing conservation in Dodori. Under what mandate are they doing that?"
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