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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
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    "content": "Constituency. These are several families who are staying on other people’s land and it is causing a lot tension just like in any other place where we have problems with squatters. To handle squatters, the Ministry needs to get money, buy land for those people and settle them. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in fact, in Nyanza we have never had a proper project by this Ministry since the time of Muhoroni Settlement Scheme immediately after Independence. After that time, we have never had a project by this Ministry yet we have so many squatters. We are getting problems on how to deal with them. We have the Ndung’u Report on the people who grabbed public land. In Muhoroni we have a number of people who took what we call special purpose land. This is the public utility land in Muhoroni Settlement Scheme. Right now, I have problems with some schools and health facilities which have been put up on land which people grabbed. The people have title deeds of the land which was set aside for public utility. The Minister and his officers should help us revoke such titles. These people were given title deeds by this Ministry. The Ministry knows that some of these plots were public utility plots. It is my appeal to the Minister and his officers to have these title deeds revoked. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have given him a few examples. We have a school which could not register candidates this year just because someone had grabbed the land where we put up the school. The candidates had to register in another school. These are issues which this Ministry needs adequate money to address. Unless they get enough money, they will not address the issues of these people who grabbed land. They are like thieves and in order to chase criminals in this country, the Government needs money and the police need to be facilitated. The same applies to the Ministry of Lands. In my constituency we have cases of delayed discharge of charge matters. I request the Ministry to handle those for me because last weekend when I was at home, a number of people came to me. They believe they had cleared the money they were supposed to pay to the Ministry but they have not been given the papers clearing them so that they get their title deeds. I support the Motion."
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