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    "id": 634137,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/634137/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Letimalo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 68,
        "legal_name": "Raphael Lakalei Letimalo",
        "slug": "raphael-letimalo"
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    "content": "The fact that KETRACO is connecting power lines in different parts of the constituency without involving the local community and the political leadership in the constituency is not good. People were surprised to see KETRACO officials coming to their land and trying to register their houses and structures along that route, not knowing that people in that area are registered under group ranches. We shall not stop at any point if there is going to be discrimination of the people. You will get a structure on a land and assume it belongs to people you find there, but because of the nature of our life and the fact that we depend on pastoralism, today we are here, tomorrow we are elsewhere--- People can move from one end of the group ranch and settle anywhere. So, you may register a household and the people that you find there as the owners of that land, but after two weeks, another group will be on the same land. Therefore, they will not benefit from any compensation. That is tantamount to discrimination. So, I am appealing to KETRACO, and it is good we have started engaging with them, to create a lot of awareness amongst the people. They should know that Samburu has people registered as members of group ranches. If there is any compensation, then the members of the affected group ranch must benefit from that compensation. That is what we appeal to KETRACO to do. Secondly, they should employ locals to educate and sensitise people and transmit information. Every time we go there, we are told that they are trying to collect data. However, given the terrain of that place, not everybody will access the places. The Samburus in particular, live in settlements of several households. You can get about 100 of them in a village and the following day, they have moved elsewhere. So, it is important for KETRACO to engage the locals to assist in getting the right information, so that they can carry out their work without any hindrance. I want to appeal to KETRACO not to commence any development until an agreement is reached with the political leadership and the community on compensation."
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