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    "id": 83759,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is another category of public land particularly in the Rift Valley where people were given large chunks of land purely on patronage. I have seen people come to my office saying that they have 6,000 acres which they want to sell to the Government. This is the case and yet they have done nothing on it. If we determine that you were given public land for a particular purpose and you have not used that land for that purpose then under the conditions and terms of sale we can recover that piece of land. In fact, we have recovered some of those pieces of land. However, we want to have a legal framework that everybody understands within the context of the new Constitution. I would like to tell Members of Parliament that there is a lot of activity in which the Government should engage in even under the Economic Stimulus Project (ESP). There are markets to be built and Jua Kali sheds but there is no land because some people have grabbed the land and used it for other purposes. In a nutshell, I will tell the gracious lady that if she comes to my office with any piece of land, even if the title deed is valid but is not used for the purpose for which it was granted, it will be taken away."
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