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    "id": 925190,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/925190/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Finally, there is something we are not discussing. It is a fundamental issue we need to think about as a House, even as we adopt this Report. We have very many cases of IDPs being allocated land after issues related to political violence. At what point are we going to draw the line? In Nyeri Town, we are still hosting IDPs of various post-election violence incidents up to this moment. The decision to allocate land to IDPs is something we need to think about because it looks like we are affirming the act of displacing people from their land. As a House, we need to think very seriously about the Government’s decision that after every election, where people have been internally displaced, the Government then allocates land to them and moves them to somewhere else. What happens to the land that they occupied before? Are we affirming a crime? The people who displace people commit a crime. As a House, it is also important to discuss this issue. If we allocate land to people who did not have land before, then we need to ask ourselves why we are doing that. Why are we allocating land to people who did not have land before? If we allocate land to people who had land before, we have to ask ourselves what happened to their land. The Report introduces an issue we need to think about as Kenyans and as leaders who have been elected to represent people. We must look for an opportunity to discuss about how long or where we will draw a line that says you cannot displace people anymore because they will be moved by Government and allocated places to stay thereafter."
}