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    "id": 627599,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwadime",
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Mwadime",
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    "content": "This Bill, as I have said, is progressive, but when we talk about community, we should be very clear. In some communities like in Taita Taveta, 24 per cent of the land consists of ranches and over 62 per cent is a national park. When we sum up the two, it comes to about 86 per cent. The Bill says that if you register a community like that of ranches, the powers are vested on the CS. At the same time, immediately after Independence, some pieces of land were given out by the whites, but communities did not know about the laws on land. They did not get their land. It was occupied by different people. In Taita Taveta, Mwatate Constituency, we have the Taita Taveta Sisal Estate. The estate was owned by the community living around there. If you add 86 per cent to the land which was given out after Independence which covers about 6 per cent, it would be about 92 per cent. That tells us that the Governor of Taita Taveta County can only control 8 per cent of the county. That is why I am saying that in this Bill, we have to be very careful. At the same time, we should be very serious and capture all the communities in the country. Otherwise, some governors will not have land to administer."
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