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    "id": 1546280,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting Hon. Chonga’s Petition. This issue does not affect Kilifi alone. It serves as a case study of how cartels are impoverishing innocent Kenyans by taking their land and rendering them landless and squatters on their own land. The question is, if this House passes the resolutions by the Committee on Public Petitions, then for them to become meaningful, they have to be implemented. This is essential so that all citizens have the opportunity to live decent lives and own land just like other Kenyans. The situation is even worse in areas where land demarcations and adjudications have not been conducted, especially in regions with communally owned land. Some of these cartels collude with county governments to steal land from innocent Kenyans. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have a case where some cartels from the community worked together with a “Chinese investor” and grabbed land in Kapturo Sub-location. When Government officers came to do land adjudication in that area, the Chinese investor went to court claiming the whole sub-location was his land and that he had a title. Everybody in that sub-location is now landless. This is a serious matter. I am talking about a true story. The case is in court. People realised that the Chinese investor who claimed to be mining diatomite had colluded with the county government to grab the whole sub-location as his, yet my constituents live there. This is a serious matter. We must protect this country from cartels. The cartels are made up of people who live within the sub-location itself. Cartels are everywhere, especially in areas that have not been adjudicated. That is a living example in Kapturo Sub-location of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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