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    "id": 1493781,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1493781/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sarah Korere",
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        "legal_name": "Sara Paulata Korere",
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    "content": "intention of the Government, in having such a parastatal there, was to undertake breeding and upgrading of the breeds of the neighbouring communities. It is an open secret that, as we speak, the ADC Mutara Farm does not have a single cow. A whole parastatal that is being run using taxpayers' money has less than 1,000 goats. It does not make sense to have it there. To make the matters worse, the Corporation has leased the land to M/s Waragus Limited, who purported to be livestock keepers, but who are now sub- leasing grass to the local community. If my constituents want to graze their livestock in ADC Mutara, they have to pay some money to that company. If ADC really had to lease that land to livestock keepers, did they have to look for livestock keepers elsewhere when we have livestock keepers in the immediate neighbourhood? I am not satisfied with the response. In fact, the reply is clouded in a lot of mischief. Something is being hidden. I will redraft this statement request into a question for direct response by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Agriculture and Livestock Development. That is because if we continue with this manner of responding to statement requests, we will not get to the bottom of this matter. I am saying that because Laikipia is a place where the locals have always been marginalised by their land being taken away in the name of investments. Recently, someone was given 400 acres of land to build a centre for rehabilitation of drunkards. A whole 400 acres? I do not know why those guys have to go there and graze their livestock literally while the indigenous people of Laikipia remain squatters. The ADC has leased out 20,000 acres to M/s Waragus Limited, and has given another 400 acres to a former Second Lady to build a rehabilitation centre. I am in support of rehabilitating our youth but 10 acres is enough to up a state-of-the-art rehabilitation centre. That is why we cannot just sit here and see land being leased out left, right and centre in the name of investing when the reality is that people are stealing it from the local people."
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