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    "speaker_name": "Kilifi South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ken Chonga",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Motion. I was here when the State of the Nation Address was being delivered by the President. I strongly support it like other Members more especially in the war on corruption. Corruption has turned out to be cancerous in our country. Quite a number of opportunities are getting lost because of corruption. Indeed, if there is any Member who will translate it to read otherwise, I believe he is not reading from the same script. It is our obligation to ensure that we support what the President is trying to do for this nation. All said and done, one key issue which I wanted to hear from that Address that I did not hear is the issue of land. We still have lots of issues as far as land is concerned. From where I come from in Coast Province, I am surprised I do not know whether it is historical or whatever, that 80 per cent of the Government land lies in Coast Province. What has been happening over the years? A good number of those in good books have taken this opportunity and transferred that land from Government property to their personal properties. Every day if you read the newspapers or watch television, you will find that there are cries of people being moved from their ancestral land because somebody somewhere has managed to get title deeds from the headquarters, acquires the land and people are moved away. That is not a problem that is affecting Coast only; it is a problem we have had in other parts of this country. I expected the President to mention something about this. We need a lasting solution to this problem. There are quite a number of people who have been displaced from where they were and are squatters in their own land. That is an issue that needs to be addressed. The other issue that I also wanted to hear is the responsibility of the Government to open up opportunities especially to make the economy grow and also offer job opportunities to the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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