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    "id": 275274,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/275274/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 192,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, regarding the issue of the sale of land, if we cannot create laws to curb the sale of land, there are communities which will be marginalized. We are already threatened with dirty money. People want to clean dirty money in Kajiado County by coming to buy land at exorbitant prices. Sooner than later, the Maa Community of Kajiado County will be totally marginalized. I want the Minister for Lands to bring a legislation that indicates that before you sell land, we must sit down as a county. In fact, I want to propose that every county should have a vetting committee because land boards are very corrupt. We should create land vetting committees based on communities. If we are capable of repossessing that land from that individual who wants to sell it, we should do it. We can even create a fund to help those who are in need. This is because sometimes when you are in need and you have no other alternative of getting resources, then you may be tempted to sell land. By the way, the majority of our people are not educated. If a mzee is given Kshs1 million per acre and he has got 2,000 acres, he can say: “Why can I not sell 10 per cent of the parcel, which is 200 acres?” Whoever is buying this land will subdivide it into portions of a quarter of an acre. A family of five will move into a quarter of an acre. If 200 acres is divided into portion of a quarter an acre each multiplied by five family members per portion, the Maa Community will be marginalized. I hope that you are getting what I am trying to tell you. I am a scared person and that is why I remained here to contribute to this Bill. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have talked at length about the issue of injustices. Mzee ole Ntimama also talked about it. The land in Laikipia, for example, was taken away from our community. If you talk of Rift Valley, this land was taken away from a community. When we got Independence, instead of the Government of Kenya either compensating or giving back this land to the rightful owners, they created something called Settlement Fund Trustee (SFT). First of all, they created Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) farms which eventually they gave their cousins, fathers, brothers and mothers, yet this is our ancestral land."
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