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    "id": 153052,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/153052/?format=api",
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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": "While we congratulate the Minister for Finance for taking that action, I would like to suggest that we should have a mechanism through which every year, we have money voted to be available for this type of settlement. At that time, the figure was Kshs3 billion, and I was in this House. I was very excited when the Minister for Finance came out with the announcement. I thought that the Minister for Finance was going to look across the country. With Kshs3 billion, I would have imagined that he would look at the Coast, where Mr. Mungatana comes from, and we have many landless people in that area. He should have looked at your area, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, where I know there are many landless people. Of course, everybody knows that we have lots of landless people in Trans Nzoi, because of the colonial history that we have in that region. So, I was hoping that this fund would be spread across the counry, buy one or two farms at the Coast and in other areas that I have mentioned. But this money went to one particular farm and Kenyans in that region were settled. That is a big problem. It is time we recognised that we cannot handle the issue of landlessness the way we have been doing for the last 30 years. It is time we put up a mechanism in place to address this issue every year."
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