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    "id": 196782,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wathika",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 152,
        "legal_name": "Dickson Wathika Mwangi",
        "slug": "dickson-wathika"
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was saying that large-scale farming will benefit the owners of land. Nobody will ever kill anybody because of that piece of land. You will not get access to the shares of that particular farmer. That is one aspect. The second one is the fact that we have continued to sub-divide land in accordance with the April 15, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 461 number of children in a family. You find that a family of ten boys with ten acres, each boy is given one acre. Then each person builds a house there to live in with his family. We have continued to consume arable land through construction of residential houses for ourselves. So, that will take care of our arable land, which can be utilised for food production. The amount of arable land that we have in this country is good enough to feed Kenyans and enable us export food to our neighbours and the rest of the world. So, we are wasting a lot of arable land by families sub-dividing their pieces and putting up residential houses for themselves whereas we can utilise that land, as a country, and as a people, to produce more food commodities for ourselves and for export. We need to think about the future of this country. I want to support the proposal to create a Peace and Reconciliation Commission. If it is true that the post-election violence that was witnessed in this country in the recent past was planned before the elections, let us get to know the truth. The other day, I was watching a movie on the Nazis of Germany. Up to now, those people are still facing justice. So, I want to believe that it does not matter what position we are holding in society at the moment; the truth must come with us even at our old age, so that perpetrators of violence can be brought to book. In order for us to move forward we, as, a country, cannot afford to relent on that one. So, I want to support that proposal. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we continue to consider legislations in this House, we will seriously consider developing the autonomous office of the Police Commissioner and the Judiciary. If we are to have strong institutions, that is the only way we can be sure that tomorrow, Mr. so-and-so or Mrs. so-and-so will not abuse human rights. The provisions contained in this Bill are meant to inject professionalism and controls. Therefore, I beg to support."
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