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    "id": 527354,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First and foremost, allow me to thank the Standing Committee on Land and Natural Resources for carrying out an investigation as requested. Through this House, I received the report by the Committee and I want to seek a few clarifications. First, the Committee concluded that this land was irregularly or illegally allocated to the National Intelligence Service (NIS). Our own co-operative society is using the land and has cattle on it. It is unprecedented for NIS to take 400 acres. My issue is that despite the fact that the Committee acknowledges that this land is irregularly allocated, it has just made recommendations, one of which is simply that no further transactions should be undertaken by the NIS, when we know that a letter of allotment has already been issued. I thought we could go further, through the Chair, to demand that this land reverts to the community of Kitui. Under the Constitution, this is community land and the community was not consulted. Therefore, this recommendation, in fact, is not clear as to the way forward on this land. If we are not careful, sooner than later, we will find this land occupied by NIS unless this House acts decisively. I am asking, through you, whether there is anything that this House can do to stop our land – Kanyanyooni Ranch, which is occupied by Kanyanyooni Co-operative Society – from being grabbed by the Government through the NIS."
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