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    "id": 895684,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/895684/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ekal",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13226,
        "legal_name": "Malachy Charles Ekal Imana",
        "slug": "malachy-charles-ekal-imana"
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    "content": "Security, Defence and Foreign Relations concerning stress on land and natural resources occasioned by refugees in Turkana County. In the Statement the Committee should- (1) State the number of refugees currently hosted at the Kakuma and Kalobeyei refugee camps. (2) Explain measures put in place by the Government to prevent environmental degradation occasioned by the huge numbers of refugees in the camps in the area. (3) Explain measures put in place to ensure conflict over resources is prevented in light of the ongoing drought in Turkana County. (4) Explain whether the Government plans to compensate members of the Turkana community for the land occupied by refugees, which would have otherwise been used for grazing livestock. Madam Temporary Speaker, for large tracts of land to be given to refugees and the Turkana people are not compensated for it in a region that is already environmentally unstable, is misuse of innocent poor people. That amounts to taking away their land which they would otherwise be using for grazing, and giving it to another community or communities, leaving them starving. I would like this issue – why our people have to give large tracks of land to people who have come from other countries so that they may live comfortably while our people are starving – to be looked into."
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