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    "id": 153037,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/153037/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 185,
        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there has been a lot of sweeping statements that have been made by politicians who have sought office in the past that when we get into Parliament, we will make sure that squatters are settled. I want to distinguish those from the statements that have emanated from Government officials. They have given undertaking and promises that, in fact, there will be programmes to settle squatters. However, this has not materialized. I am reminded that sometimes ago in April 2008, the then District Commission of Malindi, Ms. Ann Ngetich speaking on Government authority said that 40,000 acres and I quote her, will be sub-divided into 10-acre parcels of land and issued to more than 4,000 squatters. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this statement was made at a public baraza at Chakama Primary School in Malindi. In the same meeting some serious statements were made to the effect that the Government has spent Kshs108 million to purchase Chakama Ranch in order to settle squatters. That is yet another example of a statement that was made by a senior Government official, not a politician, but nothing has happened on the ground. That programme was supposed to benefit the landless in Chakama, Lango Baya and other areas in Malindi."
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