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    "id": 627066,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/627066/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 981,
        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
        "slug": "priscilla-nyokabi-kanyua"
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    "content": "While working at Kituo cha Sheria, where we represented poor people, including slum dwellers who were sometimes at the risk of being evicted, we held the view that instead of getting a title for land measuring 0.1 acres – sometimes of even 0.001acreage – it would be better in the interest of economics moving the country forward, in an area as productive and as rich as Kibra, that people get a community land title. When they get a community land title, they are able to develop that land collectively. In this law, we will be willing to move an amendment that allows a slum such as the one we have in Nyeri, or even colonial villages, to have land that they have occupied over time. Instead of getting individual titles, they could get a community land title that allows them to develop that land. In Kibra and many other urban slums, we found out that people do not refuse to build good houses for themselves. If people have security of tenure, they would build their own houses. Nobody loves to live in a shackle or house with a leaking roof or house without a roof at all, or live on un-cemented floor. It is lack of land tenure and lack of predictability that affects them."
}