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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chumel",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Chumel Moroto",
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    "content": "I congratulate and thank the Departmental Committee on Lands, especially those who went there. This is the first time I am seeing them give us a sensible Report. I may think otherwise because this Committee - I do not know whether it is the same members or not - came to my place, a place called Chepchoina. I am the one who brought the question here and they came. But, instead of listening to the people, they were bought by the corrupt officials of the Ministry of Lands. Up to date, they still have a big problem there. The reason I brought the question is because there was a double allocation. This land was given out between 1994 and 1997. In 2012, another group came and they were given allotment letters and nobody knew about it. Today, I want to say that as Kenyans, we need to be truthful especially in this House. When you are given an opportunity to serve or to go and listen to a problem, engage all your ears and strength there so that you can save the situation. If we go the way we are going now by this Report, which I am supporting, Kenyans will now realise--- We have seen a few such people working. I can quote the time of the late Michuki and what he did with transport and also when he was made the Minister for Environment. Everybody appreciated. At first, there was resistance but later everybody joined hands with him. Today, you have seen the fruits of the Cabinet Secretary (CS) Matiang’i. Everybody is now congratulating him including the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) team. In fact, Sossion was wondering how it is possible that he only learned about the exams results through the media. Nobody had informed him. This is part of the duties we are supposed to be carrying out especially in this House. Whatever comes here and to any Committee, we should become bold because it is Kenyans who have invited you to go and listen to their problems. Instead of going there and doing that, you become biased, it means there is nothing that we can solve that way. It will be the same. In fact, I was surprised that such a Report can come up. I was also surprised to see my friends, especially those I saw there, strongly saying that we should not remove even a full stop or a comma from this Report. Although when they were going to the other side--- I know they did not go only to Chepchoina but to several other areas where people are still suffering. I have heard of Laikipia and even now, there is war going on there. That is what I was suggesting. Maybe, where they went this time they found nothing but where some of us had complained about, they were given something and innocent Kenyans are suffering. That is what I want to say. I am standing my ground and nobody is going to threaten me."
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