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    "id": 857551,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Petition. If you refer this Petition to a Committee, I urge that they do a thorough investigation and make strong recommendations. Somebody somewhere is making people to believe that grazing land is idle land. The fact that the land is called ‗grazing land‘ shows that the land has real business and our grazing lands are not idle land. It is community land and we use it for purposes of grazing our animals. We should not have people invading land just because it is communal land or because of the fact that it does not have a title deed. I am a pastoralist who lives in a community land called Jmaroro Mashuru Group Ranch which has over 70,000 acres of land. It has been in the process of subdivision for the last ten years and has not been subdivided up to now. However, our land is never idle because we use it for grazing. It worries me when I hear that people are invading people‘s land or two counties are fighting over rights of a particular communal land. This is because land clashes are not good for us. Instead, we should bring our communities together and have them live in cohesion. As pastoralists, when we decide to move our animals, we do seek for permission to graze them. We keep moving from one place to another because of drought. I urge those who are moving to this land; the Kamba‘s and the Mwatate‘s, to consult and live in harmony. They should share the grassland that God gave them for we are not able to provide grass for ourselves and it is only God who provides. It should be the business of a brother or a sister to help another brother or sister instead of fighting over the communal land. The issue is; if we divide this land, are we dividing it to the right people? We have had cases where land grabbers take the communal land that is being subdivided instead of having the land go back to the community. I urge that we treat this with the urgency that it deserves, even as we ensure that the real owners, those who were meant to be in that communal land, be the beneficiaries at the end of the day."
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