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    "id": 850990,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, an interesting thing being proposed in the Bill, which I support 100 per cent, is that it will now not be a must that you get money for land that you are being moved from. We all know that we are in a largely patriarchal society. When you listen to the stories of what has happened to families that got the taste of money from land, you will learn that families have been broken down because the men disappeared with the money and left their wives and children on the streets begging. This has happened in areas where there was compensation for either the SGR or any other project that the Government was doing. If many of these street families were to tell you the truth, you will realize that after they gave the bank details, the man of the family relocated to Mombasa and married a young wife. Therefore, it is good that there is now a provision for exchange of land for land or land for Government Bonds. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the reasons as to why Kenyans keep idle parcels of land is because it is a form of saving; therefore, one buys land for speculation. If the Government knocks on their door and they says that ‘we want to carry out a project in this particular area’, they do not have to give them money, because money is tempting. They can give the individuals Government bonds, which is what is being proposed here. That is a well thought out idea, which also includes the provision of exchanging land for land. With that, the family can sit and say that ‘we know our father, he is not the best of friends with money; if you put it in his hand, and chances are that we will be homeless the following week’. They can then request to be relocated to another place and be given a similar acreage of land. This is an extremely important provision that we need to uphold."
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