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    "id": 925218,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Catherine Waruguru",
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        "legal_name": "Catherine Wanjiku Waruguru",
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    "content": "Due to the Post-Election Violence (PEV) which occurred in 1992, the second President of the Republic of Kenya gave a verbal directive that he wanted these squatters to be resettled at the Kamiti Forest, which still stands as a forest as of today, because the official degazettement has not taken place. Therefore, as a Committee, we feel that we have a duty to conduct and as a House, we have a duty to conduct and as a House, we owe the people of Kiambu and the squatters of the Kamiti Anmer Forest a duty to make sure that this parcel of land is not taken away by cartels, but the people who deserve to be resettled as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the evictees from the 1992 PEV from the Rift Valley are resettled on the 300-acre parcel of land. Like I have mentioned, this land still belongs to the Kenya Forest Service and is yet to be degazetted. The fact that there are unscrupulous business men who went ahead to obtain more than 149 title deeds irregularly and have taken over that parcel of land while these IDPs are struggling to make their ends meet and to call themselves Kenyans like His Excellency Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi would have desired. Now that this public pronouncement was made, this is a culture that has continued because anytime as a committee dug deeper into the issues of historical injustice, we realised, like in Laikipia, we have the issue of the Kwambori Squatters, where the first President of the Republic of Kenya gave a verbal directive that they should be resettled. Until recently, the National Lands Commission (NLC) handed over that parcel of land to the KDF and these people are still languishing in poverty in Nanyuki Town. For us to be in a position to make sure that we bring these problems to an end, we want to ask that if this parcel of land like we confirmed, has been developed by members of the public and government agencies who have continued to invest a lot of money in them by building public schools and hospitals... It is only right that the 300 acre parcel of land is degazetted from the Kenya Forest Service and released to the concerned persons so that we reduce poverty and encourage these people to continue living a decent life. The four lobby groups which petitioned this House agreed to consolidate their list. They have come up with the allotment list and they are only waiting for the Government. Sixty days 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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