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    "id": 151685,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ongoro",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 125,
        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. In those two minutes, I would like to say that, in supporting this Motion, the issue of squatters in this country cannot be considered in isolation. We must consider it alongside the issue of land grabbers. It is my opinion that when we talk about squatters, let us not limit ourselves to the rural squatters. We also have urban squatters, who are victims of circumstances created by land grabbers in this nation. We should address the issue of squatters constitutionally by pegging a limit to the acreage of land that can be owned by one family or one individual in this country. I fully support the setting up of that Fund. That Fund can be used to break the vicious circle of poverty that creates squatters. It can be used to develop the infrastructure and to facilitate those families to become economically independent, so that we do not produce generations of squatters in this country. I would like to make reference to citizens of this country who reside in places like Kibera and Mathare Valley. Some of them have been residing in those places for 30 years. We have failed to protect our citizens constitutionally. Anybody can come up any day and claim to have bought the parcel of land where those squatters live. We have seen that happening in places like Grogan, where an entire generation is being displaced, simply because it is not economically stable. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, a certain percentage of those funds should be given to those families and individuals to make them economically independent."
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