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    "id": 946087,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rachael Nyamai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13374,
        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to confirm that, indeed, we handled this Petition jointly with the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. As you can see, Hon. Members, it is a unique Petition that has been brought by the Executive in order to deal with this matter of Mt. Elgon regarding the variation of the boundaries of the forest reserve in order to resettle people who are already living in that piece of land. The joint committee noted that in all the submissions that were received by the Committee, they were all for the Petition apart from the submissions that were made by one Mr. Peter Kemei that did not support the degazettement of Chepyuk Phases II and III. The grounds that are being given are that this area has a lot of insecurity, which is occasioned by the fact that people are unsure whether they own land or they do not own land. For that reason, we, as a joint committee, accepted and said that the Government had a point in making sure that those people are resettled. I listened to Hon. Kapondi when he was making his presentation in support of this Report and I realised that he seems to be the one who understands this matter much more than all of us who were listening to the people who were making submissions. Hon. Speaker, we agreed that this matter needs to be settled so that people can settle down, farm and build more permanent structures. That way, we will have less insecurity in the area. It will clarify the issue of ownership of land and generally improve security in the area and up the mountain."
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