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    "id": 643645,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/643645/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "The only way people can start businesses is by taking loans using a title deed for land that belongs to a particular person. People need capital to start businesses in this country. The only way we can help them is by issuing them with title deeds, so that they can access loans. Some people possess large plots of land in this country yet in some other places, people have small plots of land. We need to make sure that we combine these small pieces of land to make up big lands that we can use for cultivation to produce large quantities of food as opposed to the small pieces of land. We want to encourage our productive parts of the country to use plantations as a way of reducing poverty. Using those big pieces of land, we can produce a lot of food in this country. Allowing community land is beneficial to some pastoralist communities. However, there are some white settlers who were left behind who still own huge tracts of land. Near those tracts of land, people are still landless. The white settlers have occupied those huge tracts of land for many years with their children and great grand children yet this country is independent. We want to encourage the Government to buy those tracts of land and distribute them to the landless people who have been living in those areas for many years. If you go to Naivasha, you will see big plots of land and near those pieces of land, there are poor people who do not even own a single plot of land yet they have been working there for many years. A white man owns that piece of land. I am not encouraging the Zimbabwe way of getting land from the white settlers, but the Government should buy those chunks of land and settle the poor people who have been living there for many years. With regard to tourist attraction sites, we want tourist attraction sites to be protected. Such sites bring revenue to the counties. Giving the county government ownership of such sites will encourage them to generate revenue and increase their income. There are some tribes in this country who are pastoralists. The major activity that they engage in is pastoralism. We need to make sure that these tribes continue to practice pastoralism in their areas. As much as we want those areas to be devolved and infrastructure to be developed, we want to make sure that those people have land for their livestock. Pastoralism is part and parcel of the lifestyle of the pastoralist people. If we are going to implement public ownership of land, we should also encourage pastoralists to obtain ownership of land for their livestock, so that they can continue practicing pastoralism which is the backbone of their culture and lifestyle. On the issue of those who have used our land for many years, they need to pay back to the locals in terms of rent for the years they have invested on that land. They need to give back to the community. You cannot generate a lot of money from that land yet the locals around are not getting anything. For such kind of land, we want to encourage the people to pay back to the community in terms of corporate social responsibility. There are some people who own land, but do not give back to the community. We want to encourage companies like Tullow Oil and 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."
}