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    "id": 625267,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "existing laws. Those other laws are here and they have improper manner of managing the Land Bill. If the good intended Bill is to function well, we must repeal those other Acts. Misuse of community land by the national and county governments cannot be over- emphasised, as my good friend Hon. Katoo has put it very well. Do not just see a vast land in the pastoral areas and think that nobody owns it. We saw that problem when Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopian Transport (LAPSSET) came to my constituency. The people concerned thought that, that open land was free land. I told one of guys that the day he will find his bulldozer facing a camel, he will realise that the land is owned by somebody. As I conclude, it is important that the national Government takes time to resolve the existing boundary issues between constituencies and counties before communities start to register. Otherwise, we will have serious conflicts occasioned by communities as they run to register their land. They need to know their land because others may want to register it as theirs. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the Office of the President must consider many things, including the history of land ownership by communities. The"
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