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    "id": 625976,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nooru",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Mohamed Nooru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will be very brief on this matter. I thank the minds behind this Bill. The way they have thought of it is maybe to safeguard and protect community land. The real issue is: Will this Bill safeguard those community interests in community land? I am afraid that unless proper regulations are put in place to enforce and implement this Bill, we might be heading to a problem. In the first place, who are these communities? Are we talking about tribes or settlements? This community issue should be defined properly if it is not defined properly in the Bill. These communities must be known to everybody. My fear is that anybody can purport to be a community because there are many people who are hanging around and can group and grab people’s land and purport to be a community that has come from that area. That is the area we need to look into. The essence of bringing this Bill to this House is to safeguard the so called trust lands which are vast areas which used to be managed by the county councils or presently by county governments. The other issue that has been talked about is where the boundaries of these community lands are. We used to have tribal boundaries then there came administrative boundaries and constituency boundaries. The bone of contention and clashes in most nomadic areas today, if you look at it, are the boundary issues. The colonial or tribal boundary is a factor. There came the administrative boundaries after Independence and people could not agree on the legitimate 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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