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    "id": 895582,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "That, on the contrary, our President, H.E Uhuru Kenyatta, has approved the Ngare Mara Ngambela adjudication section and the process of issuance of titles commenced begun in 2016 and is already ongoing. That, we will not allow, as residents of Ngare Mara, anything contrary to our settlement. We would like to make it clear that any purported letter of allotment to the school of artillery within our community residence is a double titling process because the adjudication has been going on for the last three years as the National Land Commission is giving an allotment outside their mandate on an area already gazetted as an adjudication section. That, the Ngare Mara Ngambela residents are constantly being harassed by the military who have a constitutional mandate of protecting them. Madam Temporary Speaker, this afternoon, a commissioner from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) was harassed by the military. He was even threatened. He has written to me an Occurrence Book No. I want to put this on record – No.37/10/04/19. The Commissioner for the TSC is somebody by the name Commissioner Tache Bonsa. He was threatened by military men with guns. This is very illegal. A gentleman, a military guy whose cellphone number is 0739378952 has been threatening people who are living in that area to vacate. Yesterday, there was a demonstration in town regarding the same piece of land. The Ngare Mara Ngambela residents are almost 40,000 families, who are affected by the illegal occupation by the military. Our efforts, as residents of Ngare Mara to have the matter addressed by the relevant authorities, including the NLC, have gone unanswered. Madam Temporary Speaker, the issues in respect of which the Petition is made are not pending before any court of law or any other body mandated to deal with the matter. Whereof, your humble Petitioners pray that the Senate investigates the matter with a view to returning the land back to the community and stop any further development by the defence forces in the said area until the matter is resolved. Thirdly, resolve that the KDF vacate the land in question and compensate the residents for the loss of livelihood and any other losses suffered as a result of the illegal occupation by the KDF. There are several petitioners who have signed it. Madam Temporary Speaker, if I may add, it is becoming very difficult for pastoral communities to hold on to there land, and especially, community land and trust land. We have a situation where the national Government sits in Nairobi and allocates land to persons and institutions, while they do not know what is going on at the ground. We are tired of that. Secondly, in Isiolo, we are surrounded by the military. It is as if the military cannot get land anywhere else. We have over 10 military camps in Isiolo County, which is even unsafe for the pastoral communities living in these areas. Why can the Government not focus on other areas apart from Isiolo? We are tired of this and the harassment by the military officers. I was there on Saturday and the communities are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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