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    "id": 275243,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/275243/?format=api",
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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": "Amongst the first Motions that I moved before the House was a Motion on squatters and the need for this nation to identify and come up with means of dealing with the problem of landlessness and squatters. I indicated that when my grandfather came to Trans Nzoia, he was a squatter of one colonial master called Major Hoax. He was a Major in the Second World War. Therefore, as I speak today, I speak passionately about this as a grandson of a squatter. I believe that as we pass this Bill, we are finally, after over 40 years of ignoring a problem, beginning to accept that we have this state of affairs that can no longer be overlooked, whether it is in Trans Nzoia, whether in Kibwezi where we had Kenyans moved to provide for the Mzima Springs or whether it is at the Coast where there are thousands of squatters--- I thank hon. Orengo who has been visiting the Coast several times since he joined this Ministry. We know that with the passing of this Bill into law, we will eventually be in a position, as a nation, to start confronting problems that we have been overlooking all this time."
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