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    "id": 1581436,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1581436/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Arama",
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    "content": " Despite their significant contribution to the local economy and national development, those citizens have continued to operate under conditions of uncertainty, harassment and threats of displacement from the said land. This state of affairs runs contrary to the provisions of Article 40 of the Constitution that guarantee the right to property and protection from arbitrary deprivation. Article 10 of the Constitution enjoins all public officers and institutions to observe national values and principles of governance, including inclusiveness, protection of the marginalised and sustainable development. The attempted land grabbing threatens to delegitimise the artisans’ long-standing occupation of the land and its utilisation for artisanal micro-entrepreneurship. It is, therefore, necessary that administrative actions be taken to regularise the tenure of land that is occupied by Jua kali artisans. It is against this background that I seek for a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Lands on the following: 1. A report on the status of ownership of the land under LR No. 201546 in Nakuru. 2. Specific steps that the National Land Commission has taken to regularise the land occupied by members of the Nakuru Municipality Jua Kali Association. 3. Any investigations or site verification taken by the National Lands Commission to establish the historical occupation and use of the land 4. Measures that are being put in place to protect the members of the Nakuru Municipality Jua Kali Association and the Jua kali artisans from illegal evictions, safeguard their land ownership, and ensure they are issued titles or formal tenure documents, including timelines for resolving the matter."
}