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    "id": 683359,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "with the Maasai community. It is a matter to do with justice and the right to own land and property in any part of this country. We cannot have it that one community moves into land for which people hold genuine titles, grazes on the land and then claims ownership of the same land. This has been perpetuated by the recent forays into that area by the Geothermal Development Company (GDC) in exploration of geothermal energy and the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project into that area. I want to plead with the Committee, even as it looks into the issues, not to belittle the matter to be a matter of Maasais grazing on other people’s lands. I take great exception to the request that the police desist from harassing people there. The police are placed in Moi Ndabi, Utheri wa Lari and Nyakinyua to protect life and property. We have seen the Maasai community ambush farmers in their farmland in Utheri wa Lari and Nyakinyua in the same area. Therefore, the Committee should make sure that the police are allowed to do their work in line with the law to protect life and property. We cannot allow Members to purport to speak on behalf of a community when the community is also infringing on the rights of other communities to own land in a particular area. I, therefore, beseech the Committee to look at the issue holistically and, maybe, involve the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security that is led by Hon. Kamama. That is because it is a matter that touches on both land and security. Hon. Speaker, I thank you."
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