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    "id": 627583,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "groups but as an issue of the public understanding and becoming aware of their fundamental rights in issues that will affect them today and tomorrow. When we pass laws in this House and tomorrow somebody goes to court and challenges it, it reflects badly on this House. In recent times there has been something called “conservancy cropping up all over the arid lands of northern Kenya”. We do not know who owns the conservancy, under what laws it is operating, who governs it or who funds it. It is fundamental that, through this Bill, we identify what these conservancies are and who the people behind it are. If the resident communities do not benefit from the conservancy, it will also pose a big challenge to us. Finally, I want to talk about boundaries. As you rightly know, one of the major sources of conflict in Kenya today is about land and boundaries. Because pastoralist communities move around grazing areas and water points, if you register land to belong to Community “X”, you will deny Community “Y” its source of livelihood. Therefore, this is a good Bill. It is a progression in our Constitution but we need to be very careful when we look at it so that, both at the centre and the periphery, the interests of Kenya are taken into consideration."
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