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    "id": 696595,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to comment on this Petition on land grabbing. I do not know whether it is because we were colonised by Britain and we had white settlers who had made land look very valuable in this country. The issue of land in this country has become very emotive as my friend has put it. People are even willing to kill each other just because of land yet they do not value these other things very much. There is a small category of Kenyans who hunt for vacant land. They have an appetite for land that is idle. They sometimes think it is not owned by anyone. They seem to suffer from a disease we may call grabbiosis because they grab everything where we may have a weakling on site or people who are not interested. This has caused serious problems. As long as we live in Kenya, every Kenyan has a right to have a place to lay their hand on. You cannot build on space, you need land. The Petition by the Mowlem Ward people noting that they settled there in1960 and the person who came to develop the land arrived in 1997, I urge the Departmental Committee on Lands that when they will be looking at this Petition, to look at the existing law and what it says about the occupancy for a number of years. How many years are you allowed to be declared the owner of land after occupying it? Unless we change it, the law is there. Therefore, let this not be an issue of the rich oppressing the poor who cannot access justice. I believe that even though these residents have a right to go to court, the Committee will do justice in ensuring that this land is returned to the people of Mowlem Ward in Embakasi West Constituency. Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity."
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