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    "id": 275235,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/275235/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is what is the problem with the land question; people look at land as belonging to a chosen few, if I may put it that way. Can we make a paradigm shift and say that when I go for an election, I am thinking about a Kenya that belongs to all of us? When I see a piece of land, I think about the communities that do not have land. I want to engage my brothers in the Government in this; the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, probably this will fall under his table. We must continue to tell our colleagues in administration and the police that what we are seeing like in Kibarani where people are being evicted and people think that the Ministry of Lands or the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs has something to do with it; those who apply the brute arm of force to carry out evictions and displacements do not belong to the current Kenya, where the Constitution says you cannot move people without telling them where they ought to go. I want, on this platform, to condemn in the harshest terms some of these evictions that are going on in Kibarani. I get calls and I feel so helpless that today under this new constitutional dispensation, we can continue to beat men and women and destroy property as a Government, even in the name of a court order. I think the devil should be ashamed by this kind of conduct."
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