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    "id": 305764,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the beneficiaries consist of the Pokot, Sabaot, Turkana, Luhya, Marakwet, Kikuyu and other ethnic communities. Survey and demarcation in Phase 3 has been completed and is pending vetting for the beneficiaries. We expect to settle 900 landless Kenyans in this phase including members of the Turkana community. Chepchoina Phase 2 Settlement Scheme which covers the pieces of land that I gave which measures in excess of 10,000 acres and the plot allocations were carried out by both the Provincial Administration and ADC. A substantial portion of this phase is rocky and semi-arid. The ADC in allocation took into consideration its farm workers from various communities, again, including the Pokot, Turkana, Luhya, Sabaot, Nandi and other groups who are ordinarily resident in Trans Nzoia. I wish to confirm that there has been no political interference during the exercising of implementation of Chepchoina Phase 2. The identification and vetting of beneficiaries was done by a committee elected by the communities at a public baraza held on 7th January, 2011 to represent them in the exercise. The committee comprised of 21 members drawn from various communities as follows: Turkana, four members; Pokot, four members; Sabaot, two members; Luhya, seven members and other groups had a total of four members. The area chief and District Officer were also incorporated in the committee. The appointment of the committee was done on 25th January, 2011 by the District Settler Selection Committee (DSSC) and the mandate included identification, vetting and verification of joining squatters in the area. A total number of 1,681 beneficiaries were identified and the list was forwarded to the Ministry on 17th June, 2011 after approval by the DSSC which was held on 1st April, 2011. The scheme was subdivided into 2.5 and 5.0 acre plots with the view to settle as many landless as possible. The exercise was handled procedurally with the full involvement of the concerned stakeholders and the leadership of the various communities and no direct or indirect interference can be claimed. I also wish to state that once those allocations were finalized, I personally issued the letters of allotment to the beneficiaries on 20th March, 2011at a meeting which was attended by in excess of 10,000 members of the public. The beneficiaries have responded well and are paying for their respective plots. The issue, therefore, of stopping Phase 2 allocations does not arise. Just to prove what I am saying, I have brought a list of all the allottees which I wish to table which will demonstrate that all the communities in Kwanza – this was a scheme for those living and resident in Kwanza Constituency and a few cases from Trans Nzoia County. The list is here and you can see from this list that the members of the Turkana community who got various plots in this scheme are quite substantial and one cannot doubt that their interests were not taken into consideration. But Kwanza being what it is, it is not right to identify any piece of land for any particular community. That we have found can bring a lot of problems because it is a cosmopolitan county and so to go into Kwanza and say we are settling the Turkana exclusively or the Luhya exclusively, that has been tried before and it cannot work."
}