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    "id": 266298,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/266298/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 47,
        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "The other one is what is called definition of public purposes. For the first time again, this country will have a law where you are not guessing what are public purposes. You find that at page 188 of the Bill. It is clearly defined that “public purposes” means purposes for transportation including roads. You see the word “including” meaning that it is not exhaustive. These include public buildings and public utilities for water. You will remember that we happen to be the only city where we had to invent the public toilet and take pride in it because public toilets in this country were grabbed and taken away. Therefore, for the first time, these things are coming over. If you look at page 189, public purposes will include public parks, playgrounds, gardens, sports facilities and even cemeteries. This is a fundamental departure from the past. At page 189, we have now included and we recommend this to the country that even settlements of squatters is public purposes, so that if you are acquiring somebody’s private property by compulsory acquisition for settlement of squatters, it is a public purpose. You see also settlement of the poor and landless and the internally displaced persons. Again, if we were in a rally, I would ask that you clap for me, but I will not do so because this is such a fundamental in land theory in the perception of soil, so that never again are we going to be saying that when we are settling internally displaced persons, we are doing them a favour. It is going to be governed by law."
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