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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to assure Mr. Wamalwa that I can table that report. I think it is important. It may be dealing with some of the issues the Member for Lari is talking about; that the wider questions are dealt within it. So, I can table that in the next seven days. As far as these evictions are concerned, one point I need to mention is that my Ministry has been preparing an eviction guideline, so that if people have been evicted on any piece of land, including private land, then there should be observance of human dignity and all other requirements that are now well stated in our Constitution. I would want at the appropriate time for the House to look at these eviction guidelines. In fact, we have been under a lot of pressure from international human rights organizations to come up with a document that will spell out how the process of evictions should be carried out in a democratic and civilized society. I will look forward to the hon. Member giving me support on that. As regards these 18 squatters, I want to assure the hon. Member that they will be accommodated because they already have letters of allotment. They will be accommodated in the settlement scheme that is ongoing. A letter of offer does not actually show you exactly where the piece of land that you should occupy is. It is only after survey and demarcation is carried out that individual beneficiaries would know exactly where to occupy. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the current initiatives that we have undertaken in settling people into settlement schemes, because land that is available is normally an acre or two. We are trying to settle squatters in villages where they can have access to water. I mentioned in my Statement that plots have been identified for building public utilities like hospitals, schools, so that the residential area and these public places should be near everybody and provision of electricity and water would be easy. Then they will go out to cultivate their individual pieces of land as is necessary. So, I would urge the hon. Member to plead with those beneficiaries that they will be informed in due course regarding the land that they are supposed to be allocated after the surveying and demarcation has been done."
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