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    "id": 585465,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/585465/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbai",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 181,
        "legal_name": "Benson Itwiku Mbai",
        "slug": "benson-mbai"
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    "content": "Muri Farm was initially owned by white settlers. It was a coal farm which was bought in 1945. After some time or for more than 10 years, it changed hands and the owners sold the farm to a company called “Plum”. This company operated this coal farm for 15 years. They took a loan from the AFC but they could not service it for some time. Due to the drought of 1982 and the squabbles among the directors, the company stopped farming and left the farm. The workers who were not being paid stayed on that farm. After some time, they allocated themselves some portions of the land and invited other people from outside to also settle on the farm. Other people who had been displaced when Masinga Dam was being constructed moved into this farm. Those people have stayed on that farm since 1968. Their population has increased to 3,000 people. Those people have constructed four primary schools. We also have a secondary school that we started constructing with the CDF and it is now six years old. We have markets which are vibrant and other public institutions which are operating within the farm. This farm measures 2,660 acres. After the Committee visited this area, the AFC leadership went there and spoke to the squatters in a kind of give and take agreement. They agreed that they could relinquish 2,000 acres at a price of Ksh10,000 per acre to be bought by the squatters and use the balance of 600 acres. They could sell the 600 acres to get their money. That is the situation on the ground. I wish the Committee could summon the AFC to appear before it so that they can hear the arrangement they have on the ground."
}