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    "id": 585473,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angatia",
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        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this crucial Motion on land. First and foremost, land issues in this country border on life and death. They are very emotive. I just wish to voice my support on the issue of resettlement of squatters in the aforesaid farms - Mathengeta/Tumutumu, Drake and Kaseku. The NLC should move in as quickly as possible. The county government should send surveyors like yesterday because surveying is devolved to the county government. They should move in as fast as possible, resettle these squatters and ensure that there is equality between the poor and the rich. There is a similar case in my constituency in Lugari. I urge the Departmental Committee on Lands to push the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Environment, Water and Natural Resources to degazette Mautuma/Turbo forest land to ensure that the squatters in that area benefit as we move to resettle these other squatters as indicated in this Report. The squatters were settled on that land in 1997 by retired President Moi and up to now they do not have title deeds. A title deed is a legal document that can sustain the livelihood of a Kenyan. You cannot access a loan from a banking institution without collateral. This is the only document that can help these squatters access good life like any other Kenyan. The Cabinet Secretary already approved the list and the degazettement of the forest area but the Forest Department is yet to write to the National Assembly, so that this matter can come here and be resolved amicably. On this issue of Kaseku, Drake and Mwiri farms, I would like to urge my fellow Hon. Members to adopt this Report as quickly as possible. This is the only way we are going to resolve land issues. As a matter of caution, the Constitution allows a Kenyan to purchase land anywhere as long as it is within the borders of this country. What we have seen the Governor of Kajiado County doing amounts to total incitement of other Kenyans against one community. Let us not interfere with the process of a willing buyer and a willing seller disposing of his or her property. The issue of a governor saying that a particular community should not buy land in Kajiado amounts to incitement. He has even gone as far as directing the Land Registrar in Kajiado not to allow transfer of land to non-residents of that county. That is a dangerous move and I wish that when we will be debating the Community Land Bill, we should resolve this matter within that context. I wish to support the Motion."
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