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    "id": 603590,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this petition. On the first petition about the swimmers, it is a valid issue that can be looked into considering the other sports. My issue is on the petition by the Kiboroa squatters which got most of us by surprise because we have had some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) claiming that they were the people who were evicted from Kiboroa. So, we would want when the Committee sits, the NGOs produce documentary evidence to show when they were evicted from the ADC Sabwani and ADC Olngatongo. We need that to be documented because the Kiboroa squatters were evicted in 1976 when Yusuf Haji was the Provincial Commissioner for Rift Valley and as the PC at that time, he has a list of the people who were evicted from Kiboroa. It will not be good to have individuals masquerading as squatters from Kiboroa when these are just NGOs who have been collecting money from desperate Kenyans who want to be resettled. The issue of squatters in Trans Nzoia is a very major issue that we would like to be treated with the seriousness it deserves. We have squatters who have worked in the ADC farms right from the time of colonialism and that is where their children were born. Some of them came from Turkana and Bungoma. They lived in the ADC farms where they worked. These are the genuine squatters. We would like this issue to be addressed more so by all the leaders from Trans Nzoia, and especially all of us the elected leaders. Let us have Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi, Hon. Chris Wamalwa, Hon. Wesley and Hon. Wafula so that we can tackle this issue in a more responsible way as leaders from that county. Thank you."
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