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    "id": 153051,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Wekesa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 209,
        "legal_name": "Noah Mahalang'ang'a Wekesa",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think I am on the road to addressing the issue; I am being moved into different areas. So, what is important is that we do not have as much as we used to have. My contention is that we, as the Government, now should look at the possibility of setting up some framework, or a fund that can be used to purchase land that is owned by individuals, who may not want to do farming. We have private farmers who would like to sell their land; indeed, we have quite a number of such people in my own area, where both Mr. Wamalwa and I come from. These are people who are willing to sell land to the Government for this very purpose. I know that land was given from Government institutions; it was sold to Kenyans from the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and the ADC. Kenyans have received land previous administrations. Land that used to belong to the Ministry of Livestock has been sold out to people; landless people were settled in those categories of land. As I have said, we may not have a lot of this type of land for this purpose. So, we will be looking at private land owners who want to sell. I want to remember, and also congratulate, the First Lady who, when driving from Mt. Kenya, stopped in Kieni and talked to people who lived beside the road. She discovered that those were people who had been displaced from forests, and were squatting on the roadside. Through her initiative, as we have been told, land in Solio Ranch was made available to those Kenyans through her intervention."
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