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    "id": 603584,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No. 225(2)(b), I wish to convey to the House that I am in receipt of a petition signed by one, Moses Wanjala and Wenceslaus Wakhungu regarding alleged forceful eviction of Kiboroa land owners from their ancestral land. The two petitioners have petitioned on behalf of 21,297 members of Kiboroa Squatters Alliance of Trans Nzoia County. The petitioners claim that they were forcefully evicted from Olngatongo and Sabwani Farms in Trans Nzoia County by the Government. The petitioners further claim the land in question was converted into Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) farms and that they have been denied the right and access to the said land. The petitioners are therefore, praying that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Lands:- 1. inquires into the circumstances under which Kiboroa squatters were forcefully evicted from their ancestral land; 2. causes the National Land Commission (NLC) to validate the list of over 21,000 squatters as they appear on the register submitted by the petitioners and finds ways of resettling them at the said land, and 3. makes any other order or direction that it deems fit in the circumstances of the prayers sought. Pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No. 227(1), this petition stands committed to the Departmental Committee on Lands for consideration. The Committee is required to engage the petitioners, the NLC and the Ministry of Land and Urban Settlement with a view of arriving at a lasting solution to the issues raised in the petition. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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