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    "id": 1457786,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1457786/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kavindu Muthama",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Kavindu Muthama",
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    "content": ". Their fathers worked there and bought shares from the society. They gave birth to children and today those children - most of whom are 80 or 90 years old - are being called squatters on their own land. These are the injustices we are talking about. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, can your children or mine be called squatters in their land just because they have no title deed? This is why you are seeing a lot of Gen Z on the streets demanding equity and implementation of the Constitution in this country. There are other places like Syokimau and Katelembu among others where public land meant for public utility has been grabbed by private developers and sold to people. Many of us have talked about where these mega dams are being built and how people are compensated. Katelembu Farm in Machakos is one of those where the Miwongoni Dam is supposed to be done. The people who are living where that dam is have been evicted and called squatters because that piece of land has been sold to mabwenyenye ambaowako na pesa. Now, I wonder where these will go to. I have chipped in to fight for them because they are my people. I do not see how someone can be told that he will only be compensated for the house that he has built on the piece of land, but that the land does not belong to him. This was not the case until the issue of the dam came up. I call upon the National Land Commission (NLC) and Ethics and Anticorruption Commission (EACC) to move to the ground and do justice to the poor. Those indigenous people are poor, and cannot get justice. Even when they go to court, people go and corrupt the cases. I call upon the NLC to move to the ground and do their work properly. I support this amendment Bill with a lot of amendments so that it suits the people. Thank you, for the opportunity."
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