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    "id": 925221,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me opportunity to contribute to this debate. I start, like everybody else by congratulating the Committee for the work they have done, although there is an area where I think they fell short. Generally, they have done a good job. What is most important to me is that there seems to be laxity in our systems of governance, where things can hang on for years, nothing is done and eventually people just decide to sort it out because a big problem has arisen. People are fighting and others are going to court. Nobody looks at why things were not done before. This land was given out by the President of the Republic of Kenya in 1994 to people who were displaced without finding out where they were displaced from. The Provincial Administration, under PC Musyoka then, gave the correct directives and informed the Ministries that should be involved – land and forestry – that these people should be settled on that land. Obviously, the people moved in to settle and when they were settling, the Ministry of Lands was aware; the physical planners were aware; the Provincial Administration then, whose roles have since been taken over by the Ministry of the Interior and Coordination of National Government, 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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