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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Alice Wahome",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development",
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    "content": "One is a squatter on a piece of land that has an owner. Sometimes, you are a squatter on private land or on public land. The landless may in future own land. We do not have any date on such kind of people because they are the majority because they do not have land. However, tomorrow, they may have land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the concern of the government is the squatters who become a problem to private and public properties. The Ministry has no database of persons classified as landless or squatters in the country. The settlement of deserving cases is undertaken when the need arises. The settlement programmes are, however, subject to the availability of public land because we sometimes, settle them on public land and the availability of funds. We sometimes have to buy land for settlement. The Ministry has so far since Independence, settled 301,872 families in 463 settlement schemes. Sen. (Dr.) Murango may not have asked this information, but he should indulge me so that I give the Senate this information through his question. The total is 1.288,244 hectares of the land the Government has given out for settlement. This means that a total of 3.183,320.25 acres of land across the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a big achievement by the Government and this has occurred in 26 counties within the country. In the last three years, the Ministry has settled 16,376 families in approximately 21,000 hectares of land across 10 counties. Currently, the Ministry has no settlement programmes in Kirinyaga Central because one question was in relation to the Kirinyaga Central Constituency. However, colonial settlement villages are a phenomenal inherited at Independence. In Kirinyaga County, there are 46 colonial villages with an estimated 5,231 households. In my report, I have given the names of these villages. Some initial work has taken place in terms of planning, but we have not completed it. The date indicated in Table 1 was captured by the Ministry and forwarded to the County Government of Kirinyaga for co-ordination of activities together with the Ministry. This is because, we need friendly collaboration with county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry intends with the availability of funds to collaborate with the County Government of Kirinyaga and the NLC in order to plan out surveying work and the identification of beneficiaries. Although, we have the primary data of the people in those 46 villages, we still need to survey, identify and place beacons. This is work in progress and it will require funds. I, therefore, assure the Senator that this is what I have in my records and the NLC will be our partners. I thank you."
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