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    "id": 636258,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I listened very well to Hon. Pukose. I sympathise with the state of the residents of Kitalale. No one should be a squatter in this country. The Constitution gives every Kenyan the right to own property. I sympathise that after many years, people should still be squatters in a country where there is so much vast land. Hon. Pukose says that the place the squatters currently inhabit was part of forested land. The purpose of this Bill is to increase the forest cover of this country. The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has spoken very well. We set a procedure yesterday thanks to Hon. Wario. We put in place a procedure in Clause 33 in terms of how, for example, residents of Sabaot and other places who live in forested areas have a procedure to degazette these forests. We should do it properly within the law. I appreciate that these people need to be given land, but I oppose doing it in this particular manner. I oppose Hon. Pukose’s amendment. It is not because I do not sympathise with the sentiments that he has raised, but we should do it procedurally, so that people do not sneak in amendments into Bills as has been done in the last two days. This should be done procedurally under Clause 33."
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