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    "id": 625284,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/625284/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 444,
        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
        "slug": "augostinho-neto-oyugi"
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I wanted to oppose this Bill, but my very good neighbour, Hon. Oner of Rangwe, sneaked in amendments that the Committee is planning to move on this Bill. With those amendments in mind, I will be contributing in the negative, although I will be supporting the Bill. I appreciate that this Bill is very important to pastoralist communities and people who have been having community land held in that manner. This Bill has major flaws, which take away the gains that would otherwise help such communities. Communities who have been holding land will lose it. I speak on the basis of the fact that the definition of the word “community” in this Bill is not very clear. It gives latitude to anyone else to become a community for purposes of holding community land. I would like to appreciate Article 63 (1) of the Constitution, which talks about community land and what it ought to entail. It partly says that community land shall vest in and be held by communities identified on the basis of ethnicity, culture or similar community of interest. Unfortunately, the Constitution does not define the word “community”. The only words that we have defined in the Constitution are “community land”. The definition of what community ought to be can only precede the definition of Article 63(1) in terms of what community land is. This Bill then proceeds to fail from that very beginning. Hon. Mwiru and his Committee will try to show Hon. Oner what I think that particular amendment ought to be. 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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