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    "id": 680602,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/680602/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2065,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "I am concerned about the issue of the expiry of lease. I want to invite the Departmental Committee on Lands to Trans Nzoia, where we have had so many such cases. You find that a family that has been sitting on a piece of land for 15 to 20 years is told to leave the land overnight. I think there is something in the law although I am not a lawyer, that says that if you have stayed on a piece of land for over seven years, that land becomes yours automatically. I do not know whether that was looked into. I am afraid the document is so heavy and I did not see this and that is why I was asking for clarification. If somebody has been on some land for the last seven years, that land becomes his. I am told that if there is an indication that somebody has to leave that land, you have to give them five years. That is enough time for the family to sort themselves out and if there is a problem, to find an alternative settlement. Again, I want to commend the Mediation Committee. The time has been very short. Yesterday, I got a call from my constituency and was informed that there is a family which has been living on some land, and I think the Chairman knows the issue, for God knows for how many donkey years and had been told by the chief to leave the land. I did not know where to start, but this family has been on the land and so, I told them not to leave. I told them to stay put. This is an issue."
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