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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Petition. Land matters have a lot of historical injustices. In the 11th Parliament, I presented a case of Cholim Cooperative Society. These are people who got land through Government in 1989. In 2013, their land was gazetted as part of the forest rendering them landless. Cholim Cooperative Society members have suffered and their houses and mango farms have been demolished. Yesterday, my colleague presented a Question to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for lands. The same issues were addressed in the 10th Parliament through the same Departmental Committee on Lands. Reports were tabled. The unfortunate thing is that at times Parliament lapses and these reports are not debated and acted upon. Kenyans have a lot of faith in Parliament. Whenever we go out there as representatives, they expect us to assist them. They expect us to sympathise with them and make sure their day-to-day lives are looked into. Part of the Big Four Agenda is food security. Some of these people have no food. They are not even able to take their children to school because our own Government agencies demolish their houses and destroy their livelihoods in the name of part of their land being part of the forest. I urge that these petitions are expeditiously looked into and even previous petitions which had been looked into by similar Committees. There is no need of duplicating the work of Parliament by creating other committees to look into the same matter. For instance, this matter I am talking about had been looked into by other committees. They went there, used parliamentary resources, got the views of the people, came back here and tabled a report. Another Committee of the 11th Parliament tables the same report and their findings are similar. Hon. Speaker, I urge that you give direction such that if there is a report that had been done by a House Committee of a similar nature, the current Committee can seize that matter, table a report in this House, it is debated and the House either accepts or rejects it. We can then have a House resolution on the same matter instead of making these people wait for other parliamentary Committees to look into the matter every now and then."
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