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    "id": 946101,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/946101/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matuga, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassim Tandaza",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kassim Sawa Tandaza",
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    "content": "The issue of turning this one into a settlement scheme is welcome. However, through experience, I know that the word “settlement scheme” has always been misused by Government officials thus creating a loophole for land grabbers, shylocks and politically-correct people to get land. We have so many cases even in my constituency. Talk of Golini Settlement Scheme, it was land that was occupied and developed by the locals, but because it was designated as a settlement scheme, we ended up with over 50 per cent of that land being given to non-locals. I think there is a law which says that with regard to a settlement scheme, anybody who deserves to get land can get a piece of that land. Even where somebody had his property, land was allocated to someone else simply because it was designated as a settlement scheme. I happened to have been in Lamu over the weekend. There is a settlement scheme there called Swahili Settlement Scheme. His Excellency the President had said it should be given out. I witnessed people from all over the country queuing to get land. Some of them even got lost after being shown their piece of land. They could not trace their way home and had to ask for directions to the main road because this area was designated as a settlement scheme. I totally support this particular case. I urge that it be designated as an adjudication area since there are locals and it is already developed. The people already know their boundaries and are being shown their land whether it is one, two or three acres after surveying and getting title deeds."
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