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    "id": 275242,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 148,
        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "I say so, because I was one of those who were on the front line fighting for the land policy. For the first time in our history, we recognized a category of Kenyans that we had overlooked and they are called squatters. Through the land policy and now through this Bill, for the first time, we will put in our statute and our books of law the name of squatters. You will see on page 10 that for the first time, we are recognizing and describing who a squatter is. It is not a very pretty definition. The word squatter means a person who occupies land that legally belongs to another person without that person’s consent. There are many Kenyans who have been squatting, and squatting is a very uncomfortable position if you tried it physically. They have been squatting on other people’s land for many years. When I came to this House, I indicated that between myself and my brother Mungatana, we were arguing as to where the headquarters of squatters is and I said that the Trans Nzoia County is the headquarters of squatters, but Mungatana insists that it is the Coast."
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