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    "content": "of squatters very casually. The settlement started in the 1970s when the population was small. It was done very slowly as phase one and two, to the extent that right now the settlement is not complete. The population is five to six times what it was originally. We have a situation where we have landless people and young men who have no source of livelihood. What else do they have to engage in, except, maybe, criminality? In as much as we are having this operation to weed out these criminal elements and restore peace in the area, we have to look at the long term solution to this problem. How do we avoid the recurrence of this issue? We have an issue whereby I think utility land is being grabbed by the provincial administration. The Land that was left for public utility is being hired out by the security officers and so on. I am calling upon the Government to hasten the process and for the few who had been settled, issue them with title deeds to enable them use them as collateral. Devolution has not made the matter easier because the people there are ignored. The young men are not employed; they do not have any source of income. Market places have not been developed, the roads are poor. We have a community that has no source of income. I call upon the Government to look at a long term solution for this insecurity problem."
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