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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I am seeking your direction on how some of these Statements or Questions should be dealt with and, more so, when the subject matter is cutting across more than one departmental committee. A short while ago, we had the issue concerning our maritime dispute. Though it properly falls within the remit of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, but the matter is about a court proceeding or legal process which would be better dealt with by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. I have heard the Statement requested by Hon. Osotsi and I agree with you that this is a very serious matter. I saw a gentleman dig up a grave of a person he said is his father and carried the skull around. That desperation bothered me. But what bothers me is that I heard it being said that the subjected eviction was following a court order. You have remitted the matter to the Departmental Committee on Lands because it is a land question. But if the basis of that eviction is a court order, is it not the kind of matter that should be remitted to the joint committees on Lands and Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs so that we can treat the whole matter. I am raising this issue because the manner in which the Environment and Land Court cases are proceeding across the country is bothering me. We now have Chesumei; it may be out of court or not. The other day, we had Kilifi. Maybe, Mau never came from court. You get eviction orders coming from courts in a manner that suggests the court is not being very sensitive. Would I be right to request that if, indeed, the eviction which is the subject matter of this statement request arose from a court order, then it be a matter before the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in expediting Parliament’s duty in this. They should sit jointly with the Departmental Committee on Lands so that it can be determined fast. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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