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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Kilimo",
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        "legal_name": "Linah Jebii Kilimo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The problem of landlessness in this country has been caused by politically-correct individuals, most of whom are our colleagues here. I would like to take the issue of the land of the Duke of Manchester that was to be allocated to the landless people of Marakwet East and Marakwet West Constituencies, as an example. What happened? We were in the bad books of the KANU regime then. So, the politically-correct persons were given the land, which they in turn gave to their brothers. November 15, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3679 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, lands officers are not sincere in this country. I hope that the Bill that will follow this Motion will provide for structures to look into how lands officers will allocate land to individuals. Whenever the Government provides land for settlement of squatters, individual lands officers grab chunks of 50,000 acres, sub-divide them into small plots, which they allocate to their friends or sell to those very same people for whom the land was intended. Whenever people went to such areas to claim their rights, having been told that the land was meant for their settlement, fighting would erupt. Rich people, who grabbed such land, hide behind hungry youths whom they hire to kill people. They are the ones responsible for all that has happened to our people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope that we will have structures in the Bill that will follow, so that, in future, lands officers can allocate land in a more systematic manner. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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