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    "id": 834440,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "Murang’a and they can be able to trace the history of that land like the first owner up to the current owner. That will eliminate a lot of conmanship that is now bedevilling our land sector and actually give a lot of warmth to the investors who would want to invest in this country, but are not sure about our land transactions and how we deal with land. Hon. Speaker, allow me to be a little off the topic to comment about something else. This is about malapportionment especially when we come to dividing land in terms of political jurisdictions like constituencies. The entire country is founded on land and, therefore, I believe this is a point that is associated with the Report before us. I believe one of the things that make us keep on chasing after land as Kenyans is because that is the only thing with value. When you make some money, for example, instead of taking it to the capital markets, we find solace in investing in land. Then when we do that, we create a lot of demand for land - even unused land - in comparison with other countries like America where the richest are those in technology. Here in Kenya, the richest are the people who own large tracts of land. Going back to malapportionment, I come from a constituency that is vast in square kilometres. When I compare the place that I represent - that is, Kiharu - to other areas, I represent a place of around 120,000 voters with a relatively huge land mass. When I compare the same to other constituencies of Members - some of whom are seated here - I represent 120,000 people from Kiharu and there is a person representing 10,000 people in another constituency with many more times the landmass of Kiharu. I think there are things we need to align so that a person will always be treated not in terms of the number of kilometres…"
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