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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, looking at the squatter situation in Kenya today, we cannot say that we are still embracing the concept and philosophy of African socialism where one is another brother’s keeper. We have heard fellow Kenyans thrown out of farms and transformed into refugees in their own motherland; living a life of indignity and hopelessness. This is the issue that we, as a country, are comforted with today. Looking at the very foundation of this nation, we need to actually go back to our traditional African way of life. We need to rekindle that spirit of brotherhood and oneness. This nation needs to heal and look after its squatters and citizens who are living and wallowing in poverty and hopelessness. After establishing Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965, little was done after that. From 1965 to 1967, there was settlement of squatters. What, indeed, followed thereafter, was an attempt to form a commission under Simechero. It was called the Simechero Commission to look into the problems of squatters. This Commission by Simechero did not do much. Whatever recommendations were made were never implemented. Later on, there as also a Ministerial Committee formed to look into the issue of absentee landlords. After their recommendations, not much has been done because the phenomenon of absentee landlords remained in this nation, particularly at the Coast. It is something that we need to do."
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