Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 712517,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/712517/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 520,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. J.K. Ng’ang’a",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 54,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Nganga Kiuna",
        "slug": "joseph-kiuna"
    },
    "content": "Let us all agree that somewhere along the way, we, Kenyans, messed up our land acquisition or ownership. I believe that it is not too late to rectify that mistake which our forefathers may have made deliberately or not. The Leader of the Majority Party and the Chief Whip of the Majority Party have highlighted the issues which we are supposed to address in the Land Value Index Laws (Amendment) Bill, but there are some other pertinent issues, which we need to relook at and correct them before it is too late. Before we gained Independence, the colonial masters had planned for the capital city here in Nairobi. That plan is still there. But after Independence, some people came up with other plans and instead of developing and making sure that whatever had been pre-planned by the colonial masters was implemented, they shelved the plan and started constructing houses anywhere to make quick money. As we go out of the capital city to our native lands, there are ancestral or communal lands. It is high time we did thorough research and identified the lands which are supposed to be developed, retained for forests and national parks and gazette them. If we do that, nobody should encroach on them. As I speak, it pains me a lot to see that Nakuru County, where I was born and brought up and where I used to see very green hills like the Mau Escarpment, they are not there. I do not know what happened. It has been invaded and cleared for settlements. As I speak, people are crying of drought and shortage of water. In the old days, we used to swim in rivers, but we hardly have any river now. If you go to the other side of Menengai Crater, which was reserved for a forest, it has been invaded by land developers. Nothing is left even on top of the hill. The Kenya Forest Service has tried to fence it, but it is invaded now and then. Surely, as we debate this noble and important issue, we need to ask ourselves how long we will keep debating here and making laws that are not implemented. It is high time that whatever is agreed here is implemented on the ground."
}