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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khamisi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to also thank the hon. Members who have contributed to and supported this Motion. I would particularly wish to thank the Minister who has indicated his full support and commitment to ensuring that the issue of landlessness of squatters ends once and for all. I also want to tell him that we will be looking forward to an enhanced Budget next year, so that we can pass it in this House and be able to provide settlement to the squatters. The Kshs400 million that has been provided in the current Budget is not inadequate to deal with this very massive problem. Questions have been asked here as to whether we all need to own land. As it has been pointed out, it is not so much about owning land. It is more of actually how we utilise that land. The problem we have at the Coast Province, particularly, is that people want to be able to get secure habitation for themselves and for their families, and probably get some small holdings for them to be able to exist. It is very shameful that in this day and age we have people with tens of thousands of acres of land while others have nothing at all. The land policy needs to come out very clearly to say that there is a ceiling, which should be upheld. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I fully support compulsory acquisition of land because that is the only short cut to solving this problem. If we go the way that we have been going, forming commission after commission, and commissions that issue recommendations that are not fully implemented, we will not get anywhere. I wish to thank the Government for their support. I look forward to the Bill that Mr. G.G. Kariuki is planning to bring to this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to move."
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