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    "content": "the Kenyans live on in the rural areas for farming. The country will then become food- secure. If we do not move in that direction or our leadership is not going to drive the thinking of our youth into that direction, what we are going to end up with in this country – 50 years from now – will be Kenya as a rural slum, which is just a graveyard. This is because Luos, Luhya and Kisiis must burry their people in the homestead. The Kalenjins have also learnt from us. So, you will just have a rural slum and graveyard. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must aggressively train our children and ask them to live within their profession and gracefully pursue something that almost made us lose the referendum on the current Constitution. The “No” side was telling Kenyans that this Constitution was going to provide that there will be no further subdivision of family land. Now that the Constitution was passed and we are through with those challenges, this Senate should face it and tell Kenyans that you cannot subdivide land beyond a particular acreage. This is because the moment you do that, land stops being productive. The poor who cannot live with the idea of losing their ancestral land should be managed. For example, you can move all of them to Kakamega and put them in flats. You then give services including water, schools and electricity cheaply, to people who are in the same place. Where they have come from, you leave it open for farmland. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, I beg to second the Motion."
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