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    "id": 914573,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "Jeniffer Shamala",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I support our mediation team. I congratulate the Hon. Speaker for having the best selection of Members in the Mediation Committee. It comprised of men and women of high learning, who are intelligent and dedicated. More importantly, they were ready to cede some ground for the benefit of Kenyans. If they went to mediate with their lines already drawn and not ready to cede ground, this Bill would be passed by the 13th or 14th Parliament. Because of the selection that Hon. Speaker did, we had a good team that was ready to negotiate and cede ground for the sake of Kenyans. That is why we have this Bill before us today. I want to urge all the Members of this House to support the Report of the mediation team. We are willing to support them because we know they had good intentions for this country. I also agree with the review of representation in mediation committees. It beats logic that in the Senate, one Senator represents 12 Senators in the Mediation Committee whereas in the National Assembly, one Member represents eight of us. That is the ratio. So, we need a mediation committee to be set up in terms of the ratio of representation, so that we have equal representation. I expected the Senators to be two against eight of us. That will be the best representation. They will be representing a number of us; that is the essence of representation. I also want this House to speed up the passage of this Bill. We know that land issues in this country are emotive. We saw what happened in Nairobi. Hon. Passaris has alluded to it. Houses were brought down because of fake reasons. You were given certificates from the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) that were fake. As an investor, I may not have spiritual eyes to tell fake from genuine documents from the Government. We have 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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