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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, EFP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Haji Yussuf",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this Motion. It is very vital that we have adequate space for all schools in the country. My colleague and friend just said that land is not a problem in ASAL areas. What is happening is that all of a sudden, pastoralists are leaving the pastoral lands and settling in settlement areas in big numbers. School land is normally located in very strategic areas and there is a scramble for school land. Just last weekend when I was in my constituency, we were together with the sub-county commissioner trying to solve a land issue where some communities came from the pastoral land and settled on part of the big school compound that was there. It is becoming very difficult for people who have settled in a place to be moved out. It is so important that we have adequate land. What we now call small schools may in many years expand. We may need to convert the land into a university. What is today a primary school in a rural area may become a university in the next three or four generations to come. Therefore, this is the right time to ensure that we have adequate land for all our schools, whether primary or secondary schools, in anticipation that land The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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