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    "id": 153043,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Wekesa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Noah Mahalang'ang'a Wekesa",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion, which is urging the Government to set up a squatters settlement fund. I want also to join Mr. Mungatana in congratulating the Member for Saboti for bringing this Motion. I just want to stress the fact that the Member for Saboti is a chip off the old block. If you remember – you may not remember – his late brother, the Vice-President, Mr. Wamalwa, was a master of the English language. His brother has gone to the extent of defining what a squatter is. What he did not tell us is that squatting is a problem, not just to prisoners and others, but even as you get older, squatting becomes a problem. He has defined what landless people are called in Kenya. For quite a number of years we, in the Government, have stopped using the word “squatting” and we are calling these people landless. Maybe, at some stage, there could be a need to use the current term, which is landless people rather than squatters. In the era of the late Jomo Kenyatta, he had land to give away and, in fact, the settling of landless people then was at very nominal payment. In fact, it is true to say that many Kenyans got land for free. Looking at the whole of Ol Kalau, parts of Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu and Nakuru, many Kenyans got land for free. In the era of the former President, Mr. Moi, again land was given out for free. Indeed, quite a number of Kenyans paid something, but as Mr. Wamalwa has told us, a chunk of land from our forests was given out to Kenyans and it was given for free."
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