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    "id": 625945,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/625945/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to contribute to this debate. From the word go, I want to pick it up from where my coalition whip has just left. The challenge of the Community Land Bill is that of clashing of cultures. On one hand you have a community that owns a piece of land from ancestry, but on the other hand you have a capitalist system coming in, where land is highly valued in terms of monetary gain. You will find a lot of these things happening, especially in the Kajiado area where community land is being subdivided and people are buying modern-day elements of conspicuous consumption. These things are unstainable. If you subdivide trust land, then people end up getting into real estate or buying big cars like Prados and then that car requires maintenance. There is a serious juxtaposition of a conflict of value systems. For example, how do you ensure that in an individual contractual society, you have people who are entrusted to be the trustees of community land in terms of even its own usability and management? There is a great challenge. This is actually at play when you look at the Government-sponsored Bill and the Orengo-sponsored Bill. That kind of ideological difference is there. So, as we deliberate on this Bill, we have to ask ourselves whether we are putting proper safeguards between communities who hold prime land and the other actors. How do we ensure that the communities are not exploited? How do we ensure that they get value for money? How do we ensure that some people do not just connive, because they have been entrusted to be leaders of communities, to sell the community land? A very good example, in fact without even going further, is the Ng’ati issue in"
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