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    "id": 625919,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/625919/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Munene",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wambui Munene",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I support this Community Land Bill. There are so many colonial villages where people still live. There are people who live in Majengo, Kiawara and Wetemere in Nyeri. They cannot do anything because they have not been given titles so that they can build their houses. We ask the Government to register their land as community land so that they are given title deeds. That way, somebody can build a small house for his or her family to live in. The way they are living now, their houses can catch fire anytime and identification cards and certificates of the children can be destroyed. They have no place to call home. In the past, there were many community lands but now there is no land anymore because there are so many grabbers. Even where land is remaining like near cattle dips, you can see members of county assemblies grabbing it and selling it yet it is community land. We want a law which will govern the community land so that our people do not suffer. People were born in Majengo and that is where they call home. They get married there and get children and yet they cannot call that place home. We want them to be helped. When this country experienced clashes, many people left their land and now they cannot go back and claim it. We want a law which is going to govern everybody in this country. Everyone has a reason to stay on their land. The victims of land clashes must go back to their land because they are entitled to it. We should not leave the law hanging for somebody to claim land that belongs to someone else. We want our Government to protect community land so that we can build more hospitals and schools for our children. Currently, we cannot build anything for the community because the land is grabbed. We are also telling the governors not to touch community land."
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