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    "id": 323618,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/323618/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kigen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 44,
        "legal_name": "Luka Kipkorir Kigen",
        "slug": "luka-kigen"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also make my own remarks and contribution towards this worthy Motion. I would like to start by thanking the Mover of this Motion. In moving this Motion, he is now taking us in the direction of finding a lasting solution to a problem that has stayed with us for a long time. The issue of Banita is now known all over. It is just a very small portion of a sub-location which before 2002 was never known by anybody beyond ten or 15 kilometers away. But because of the events that have taken place from then up to now, it has now become more or less a nationwide household name not for any good at all, but for the wrong things. This land was purchased in 1998 on request by deserving squatters who lived in the settlement scheme and worked for a white man for years. They continued to multiply and became very many. Since they needed a place to stay, they approached the Government and the land was bought for them. In 2002, the land had already been sub- divided and allocated to the deserving cases. To our surprise, in 2003, soon after the general elections, when the new leadership came in, the first thing that they found fitting was to again dispossess those very helpless Kenyans of the only thing that they had gotten. They cancelled the entire allocation and survey work that had been done using a lot of public funds. The whole acreage is about 14,000. All of it was cancelled and they surveyed afresh; reducing the sizes from between 20 acres, ten acres and five acres to between two acres and five acres in areas which were found to be very good. The saddening thing was that people were brought from outside, thus ignoring those who were actually intended to benefit from this settlement scheme. Those who were coming in did not ballot. They were being allocated parcels of land in areas where infrastructure had been developed, schools, dips and hospitals built and boreholes had also been sunk. The original squatters were moved to about five or six kilometers away to begin life afresh in favour of the in-coming people from other places like Molo, Subukia and Nyahururu. We are not against Kenyans coming to live with other Kenyans, but really, to dispossess of land those who had already been found by the Government to be deserving and give the land to other Kenyans, was something that did not---"
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