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    "id": 641768,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/641768/?format=api",
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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, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for protecting me. I said that this is a very bad Bill and it needs to be opposed. I have watched the sort of legislation that the Departmental Committee on Lands has brought. With due regard, they brought the Community Land Bill and now this Land Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2015. Article 60 of the Constitution talks about the principles that need to guide land issues in this country. Those principles speak to equity and access to land, security of land rights, sustainable and productive management of land and transparent and cost effective administration of land. They go on and on because those are the aspirations of the Kenyan people in terms of how land ought to have been administered. Consequently, many Kenyans have suffered several injustices. Many Kenyans, like those my colleagues have spoken about are squatters as we speak. Half of the country owns nothing and yet land is the only resource that they have to move forward. Land has not been dealt with equitably in a manner that gives then recourse. I will be speaking to specifics in this Land Laws (Amendment) Bill. I just want to give us the holistic scenario in the country. We have a couple of squatters in this country who are landless and who still survive and yet they are Kenyans. Kenyans are supposed to live in dignity. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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