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    "id": 925168,
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    "speaker_name": "Kiambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jude Njomo",
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        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Report by the Departmental Committee on Lands. First, I would like to thank them for how they have handled this case. I remember when it came to this House and was forwarded to the Committee. They took their work very seriously. I even remember that I joined them when they went to collect views from the public in Kamiti Anmer. Kamiti Anmer is in my constituency. This is a piece of land that has really caused headaches for the residents of Kiambu for a long time. Before this land was given out to the squatters, it was a forest known as Kamiitu . It was the destination where thugs would take their stolen property, including vehicles stolen in Nairobi, for dismembering. It was a centre for activities of thugs and thieves who were stealing from Nairobi. They were causing a lot of insecurity in the area. When former President Moi decided to give out this land to the squatters in Kiambu in the 1980s, he was solving two problems: First, getting rid of the “workshop” that was being used by thugs to dismember vehicles, thus causing anguish to people in Nairobi and Kiambu. Second, resolving the squatter problem in Kiambu. It was a cause of celebration for Kiambu and Nairobi people. The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) left the forest and the land was subdivided and given to the squatters. After a couple of years, the KFS went back and claimed that the land was theirs simply because when they were ordered to forfeit ownership of the land to the squatters, they did not follow the due process and the laid down procedures to hand it over to the people of Kiambu. They used the same loopholes to claim that the forest was not degazetted in the proper way. That is why I would like to thank the Departmental Committee on Lands because they traced these events and found out that the squatters had no problem and had done what they were supposed to do, but the KFS was on the wrong. They wanted to use the loophole they had created to claim back this piece of land."
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