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    "id": 834230,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "takes advantage of an institution. The Government has policy on land where we can acquire land for construction of roads and for expansion of institutions. In my constituency, when a dam was put up, people were moved because that would serve the public. It is important that when this policy is set up, it displaces people who are near schools for purposes of providing quality education and space for expansion of our schools. There is a programme the Government has of setting up technical training centres in our constituencies. The target is to have 290 of them. The minimum requirement in land is five acres. In many of our constituencies, we are forced to look for an institution that exists so that we can take it over and convert them into these technical training colleges. Unfortunately, you will hardly find an institution that has five acres. It is important that we support this Motion, set up land policy, and ensure that there is money set aside for purposes of acquisition of land. As this fund is set up, it is important that we look at the rates that will be used. Again, we could set up a fund and agree that we will acquire this land from people by buying it at prices that are reasonably low. That can also happen. Whenever the Government takes over, the prices are set. It is important that as we set up this fund to be considerate to those people who have previously donated land. With those few comments, I support and urge my colleagues to also support because it makes a lot of sense."
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