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    "id": 574286,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/574286/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 125,
        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
        "slug": "elizabeth-ongoro"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. Community land is what was previously known as trust land. As you are aware, this has been a source of contentious issues, especially in areas like the coastal region, Masai Mara and other communities where the boundaries of ancestral land that was then referred to as trust land or used for other purposes like tourism, has been a real source of contention. If you go through this Bill, it makes a lot of provisions that will help in the administration of what is known as community land. It actually even restricts those who formerly gave themselves the responsibility of administering these kinds of lands; the so- called council of elders and such like people. They are no longer going to have the opportunity to unilaterally make decisions that affect an entire community. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Bill even has provision that can actually transfer land back to the community that is already owned by individuals. According to me, the few provisions that I have noted in this Bill are quite exciting considering the issues of land, that have affected the people living along the Coast, where you find indigenous people living as squatters, generation after generation. With this Bill, certain provisions can be used to actually transfer this land owned by individuals along the Coast – those who own thousands upon thousands of acres as one family or individual. Through this Bill such land can be transferred back to the community and by extension, allow indigenous community members to own land and not be squatters in their own home. I beg to support."
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