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    "id": 649237,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I would like to request the Chair of the Committee to reconsider his definition of the word “community”. I am saying this because Article 63(1) of the Constitution lays the basis on which a community ought to be identified. A community ought to be identified on the basis of ethnicity, culture and similar community of interest. This is the gist of this Bill. I appreciate the fact that people own land as private and public persons. But the Constitution is very clear that you can own land either as a private or public person or as a community. To try to extrapolate the meaning of “community”, as the Chair is trying to do right now in his definition, is fairly risky and unfair in terms of the spirit of the Constitution. I request him to reconsider the definition to only include common ancestry and similar culture or unique mode of livelihood. That will actually cushion us and make us be in tandem with the constitutional aspirations. Otherwise, we are opening a Pandora’s Box. I thank you."
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