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    "id": 266335,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also voice my support for the Bill and a few concerns. I would like to disagree with my very good friend and aspiring Governor for Tana River that all those Members of Parliament who support an extension date with regard to when this Bill has to be enacted into law, are maybe running away because they do not understand the Bill or are doing so because they are protecting big land owners. The reasons could be different for each and every Member supporting such a stand that we have an extension. I am one of the Members who to this hour, is ready to contribute to this Bill but still supports that this Bill needs a lot of input. Most of us, Members of Parliament should go back to our communities and counties, consult and get to know the difficulties they have been undergoing all these years with regard to land issues. This will make us to be sure that when this Bill becomes law, we are safe and we may not need to go back to the events of 2007/2008 when people had to slaughter one another maybe because of elections but more importantly because of land. At the Committee Stage and before we front amendments to this Bill, although the Executive side of the Government has done enough public participation, this House cannot abrogate its role and desire to have the public participate and give an input to any law to any other arm of the Government. Rigorous as hon. James Orengo and his team may have gone to see how they would carry the public on board - I also want to thank him for having accorded us the opportunity to look at these Bills in Mombasa together – I think the Committee responsible in this House on matters regarding land might need to go all the way to know what the public has to say on first hand information. For some of us who are supporting that an extension be granted by this House, even for a month until when we are sure that we will have a law that will curb misgivings that have bedevilled issues of land, mistrust and injustices that have compounded issues of land in this country, we are almost certain that whatever law we will have will be a law, at least, if not for an eternity, that will protect us for a good number of years. Having said that, how is land owned in this country because the contradictions baffle me? I want to honestly state the naivety of some of us and where we come from. The first time I saw what a title deed looks like was when I got to Parliament. That was on a day when a Minister tabled a copy of what was a title deed. If the elite from Tana River; the man who had the opportunity to be elected to this honourable House, saw a title deed for the first time when he came to Parliament, if we do not do justice to this law, when will someone in Tana River, let alone own a title deed, but see what a title deed looks like?"
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