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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khamisi",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Matano Khamisi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to fully support this Motion brought by my colleague, hon. G.G Kariuki. You know very well that I am very passionate about this issue. I feel that we are failing our fellow Kenyans by not settling them properly, yet this is one of their fundamental human rights. Settlement schemes were started in the 1970s and 1980s. But, as we have noted, there was a complete failure in the implementation of these settlement scheme programmes, to the extent that the people who were supposed to be settled were not settled. Instead, other people, who were privileged, were given land at the expense of the needy. We have reached a point where we have created a tribe called \"squatters\". This tribe is composed of millions of Kenyans across the heart of this country. I think we have created a very dangerous situation, that is now manifesting itself in urban and rural areas. We have earned the dubious distinction of having the largest squatter settlement in the heart of Nairobi, the Mathare Valley. I can tell you that this settlement has now become a tourist 3666 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 15, 2006 attraction. Tourists come here to see how people live in Mathare Valley. If there is a failure on the part of our Government, then it is failure to provide proper settlement for our people. I fully support this Motion. I feel it supplements my Motion tabled in this House recently in which I urged the Government to look into possibilities of settling people on the land now owned by absentee landlords."
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