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    "id": 809537,
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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Nyasuna",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think you were giving us homework to be reading at night so that we are informed when we come the following day. Let me support this Report so much and thank the Committee for coming up with very concise recommendations. The Committee is really right that this matter squarely falls within the purview of the NLC. If you look at the role of the NLC within our Constitution, one of them is to initiate investigations on its own or on a complaint into present or historical land injustices and recommend appropriate redress. The NLC was within its mandate. With this scandal on their head, it is in the appropriate place. The chairman and the NLC cannot run away even if they run to The Hague and back. This is squarely on their doorstep. They cannot delegate it to anybody. It is very clear from their Report that the NLC initiated the process on their own. They conducted no public participation. The school that was being acquired was not even aware that this was happening to them. They were just operating on their own. To be honest, the NLC must take responsibility. I agree with the Committee. We can speak about education and these other people but if you look at the letter that was being mentioned as being written by CS Matiang’i, it simply said, “The procedure for acquisition is well within your purview if you want to acquire land. Go and do whatever is within your purview.” What is wrong in somebody saying, “Do it if the procedure to acquire land is within your purview”? Even if somebody wants to drag other people into this matter, the Committee has put it where it really belongs. Instead of addressing historical injustices, the NLC was addressing historical injustices in their stomachs. They were obsessed with how much they could eat, how much they could acquire and how much money they could make. It is a shame. The NLC must know that it is truly a shame. As has been said by other Hon. Members, if Swazuri is still going to be in office after this Report has been debated and concluded on the Floor of this House, we better meet elsewhere. The House must go accordingly. Because many Members want to speak, let me leave my point at that. I can see that the time is up and we have something else to debate. Thank you."
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