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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Luanda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak to this particular Report. I have noted that the majority of my colleagues here have spoken in support of the Report. But I have taken note that although it is good and prudent to provide land and settlement for our people, we must do that recognising that land use in this country is a problem. We have situations in this country where we had many wars and battles over land. People have been displaced from their places of residence during election times and the subsequent governments have made attempts to settle such people like the ones that are being settled in this particular case. On the issue my brother, the Member for Nyeri, raised about people who were displaced, where they were displaced from is still part of this country known as Kenya whose Constitution says that every Kenyan is entitled to settle anywhere within the boundaries of the Republic of Kenya. If these people have been displaced from where they lived by other Kenyans, and that land still exists, what is so difficult for the Government and this Committee to follow up and find out where that land is and who is occupying it today? Why can we not restitute these people to their land that they were displaced from? These are the questions that we must ask ourselves. We have a doctrine in law where you abet a crime after the crime has been committed. Displacing someone from his legitimate land is a crime in itself. If we let such criminals get away with land that they have dispossessed from people violently within the boundaries of a country known as Kenya, a country we all love and swore to protect, we shall be failing. The Committee has done a good job, but I expect, as Kenyans, to ask ourselves these questions. These people who carry pangas during elections in the pretense that they have lost or for whatever reasons, to displace others must be brought to book. The Departmental Committee on Lands has the duty to follow that matter to the root of the displacement and restitute the affected people to where they belong. I am saying so because this country is becoming a desert. We are cutting down trees every day and yet in every international forum we go, we pretend that we are committed to reforestation. Here we are saying that we cut down forests and allow people who have invaded a forest to continue staying on that land because they were displaced from somewhere else. We are not answering the critical question of where these people were displaced from before. If these people were displaced, who are those who displaced them? Are we saying that there are some super Kenyans who can displace one, take their land and then the Government takes care of the displaced people without 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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