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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "The highest levels of injustice in this country are in areas of land ownership. People are dispossessed of their land every day. People have bought land and eventually somebody comes and becomes so legalistic, everybody knows. We should start having a situation where like in marriage, if any of your neighbours can stand up and say: “We know for sure that Sen. Halake is married to Mr. Halake or whoever and have been living with us”, nobody asks for a marriage certificate. It is called common law presumption of marriage. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have the Registered Land Act that says, and I am sure you know this, that if you have been living in your land for the last 12 years, you acquire adverse possession. However, people go to court and courts do not care. How do you evict somebody who has been living on a piece land for 40 years at midnight? Where is justice in this country? These are the big questions that we must deal with because when a grandson of a land seller emerges today and says: “My grandfather never sold any land”, and he was not even there. The justice system listens to such people and delivers judgements and the police are brought into the loop to go and superintend the eviction. The case of Nandi which you said is seized by some Committee in this House, as I finish because that is where I started, even the Governor of Nandi said he was not in any The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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