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    "id": 323677,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/323677/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Gumo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 160,
        "legal_name": "Fredrick fidelis Omulo Gumo",
        "slug": "fred-gumo"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also rise to support this Motion with amendments. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of land in this country has been sensitive. I think we must begin moving away from this idea of settlement because land will never be enough. Land has never increased but we have increased the population of this country. We must now try to do everything possible to make sure that we develop this country in a way that, instead of people thinking of land, they should now be able to get some employment in other sectors. If you go to developed countries, there is nothing like settling people because now we are giving people half an acre, quarter an acre or nothing, which is not even enough for them to live on. In fact, what we are trying to do is to get them a place for burial not even to live on. If you give somebody a quarter of an acre and he has got four children, what will happen to the four children? Let us try to make sure that we industrialize this country so that we move people from the settled areas into the urban areas so that they can begin working for the development of this country because land will never be enough. This is why in a very short time we are going to experience food shortages because of having less and less land. You see the mentality of Kenyans is that we must have land. Even if he works in the UN, instead of thinking of buying a house in Nairobi, he sends money to his mother or father to get him two acres of land somewhere so that he can build there. We must develop a new culture because it will never be enough. Even if you settle these people there, there will be others tomorrow. After that they will be landless. So, as I support this Motion, we have to try and change this culture because we have some other communities, who never even benefit out of these settlements. Their areas are full. If you go to places such as Western Province in some areas in Kakamega, Vihiga and Kisii, people are there to stay. If you are going to only begin thinking of how to settle other communities, what about these other communities? So, let us forget about these things and work so hard to develop this country---"
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