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    "id": 302542,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/302542/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kigen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 44,
        "legal_name": "Luka Kipkorir Kigen",
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    "content": "land varies from one place to another. In some places, you will find that the value of land has gone so high, but you will still find the Government relying on the valuation done by the Ministry of Lands. It is now at the rule of willing buyer, willing seller. If the Government, indeed, is genuine and would like to resettle Kenyans, they should no longer confine itself to the valuation given by the Ministry of Lands, but rather shift to the willing buyer and willing seller rule. I can assure this House that if it moves in that direction, the people that we are calling IDPs will find settlement in the shortest time possible. But as long as we go by the rule of buying land as valued by the Ministry of Lands, that problem will remain with us for long. That is because even in Rongai today, there are about 4,000 to 5,000 acres which can take a substantial number of IDPs. But the owner is asking for over Kshs400,000 per acre - and that is the general value there. But the Government says that we cannot get there. It is actually the Government that is frustrating the resettlement. I would like to ask the Government to relax its position about the value of land, so that whatever land we get, we can buy it and our people can get settled. That is the one thing that I would want to urge the Ministry to deliberate at the Executive level and buy land without restriction."
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