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    "id": 925164,
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    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I concur with my colleague about the displacement of his constituents. This is something that is happening countrywide. When there are displaced people who are allocated land that is part of the forest cover, somehow it does not take long before they are asked to get out of the forest because degazettement of that land has not been done. It is important not to cheat the public. It is good if we have agreed to give land to people who have been internally displaced to follow the due process and allow them to legally have the land so that they do not face problems. When people are left in that manner and are not sure when they will be displaced again, they cannot develop economically. If you go to that area, you will realise that they are not even building permanent houses. These issues are all over. There is an issue in Baringo County, and Baringo South specifically, in a place called Mochongoi. People there are always worried because they do not have title deeds. That area was previously Government land. They were given that land but they stay there with uncertainty. They are not sure of what will happen next. When they hear that the Government wants to re- afforestate, they think that will happen sooner or later. As my colleague has said, let us consider helping these people once and for all. From 1992 to date is quite a long time to leave somebody in uncertainty. A child who was born then is now an adult and does not even know where their home is and does not have a permanent home. The National Land Commission (NLC) is soon being constituted. When they get into office, they should consider settling our people once and for all. When the resettlement is effected in Kiambu, it should also be done for the people of Baringo County."
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