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    "content": "Ramisi Sugar in Kwale, but that industry has also collapsed. In addition, there is cassava growing in the Coast. I remember as a child, we would go and find a lot of cassava, we ate and enjoyed it. Nowadays, you look for it and you do not get it. Maybe somewhere along the line, people realised that they are not getting as much from the land as they ought to get. Of course, then the national and county governments have to come out very strongly to support that subsector because this is a source of income which is very important for our people to move forward. Many parcels of land which were mentioned by Sen. Madzayo have been sold and resold. All sorts of issues crop up, for example, you find that one family has sold the land, they have a title deed and another family has come and sold the land and they have a title deed. This leads to congestion and it becomes almost impossible. In the case of Mariakani, in areas like Sangasini, for example, which were meant to be curved out to be industrial-commercial areas, you find people settling there. There are people who bought land in certain places in Mariakani which were meant to be rural residential but now you find next to you, there is someone who is doing some industrial activity, for instance, storage of goods and lorries. So, in the morning instead of listening to the sweet music of birds and going to milk your cow in peace, you are wondering about how much damage you are doing to your lungs and body system because you do not even know what you are smoking in a free environment. Where you are meant to be breathing in fresh air, you are smoking in all the hazardous waste that has been emitted by the industries. There is no organization and planning. For example, the digital mapping that we put into place in Mariakani is on paper yet we handed it over. It should be with the county government. It is a question of activating it. So, it is a question of saying; what happened? Why do we want to do post-planning? Where we have already planned, can we go to that so that we address the issues that have already been addressed and sort them out in a manner that will make it possible for people to live in harmony? We will not have peace in Kenya if we do not address these issues. As I said earlier, we need to find ways and means, even have an investigative committee. One of the Committees of this House, maybe the Committee on Land and Natural Resources needs to look for a forum where they will call members of the National Land Commission (NLC), discuss, tease out and find out from them exactly what is happening, where the bottlenecks are, how they can address those specific bottlenecks and what sort of help do they need to be put into place for them to do that; go back again to the communities; talk about the historical injustices, especially land injustices and find out how can they be rectified---"
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