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    "id": 951477,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/951477/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13206,
        "legal_name": "Boniface Mutinda Kabaka",
        "slug": "boniface-mutinda-kabaka-2"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, someone has said that this problem is universal. Without going very far, we have a problem in Mavoko which is just next to where I come from. The land initially belonged to the Kamba community. However, historically, after the Government of Her Majesty the Queen paved way to the Independence Flag of Kenya, the powers of land ownership was vested in the Prime Minister, then to the President and eventually the Commissioner for Lands then. Sen. Orengo was once the Minister for Lands. The leases were given to the East African Portland Cement Company (EAPCC) for 99 years to extract raw materials used to manufacture cement. While perusing the copies of the leases, there is a condition that states that upon exhaustion of the raw materials, the same land was to revert to the State. By implication ipso facto, the State holds the land in trust for itself and also for the public. In those conditions, the EAPCC has no legal right to sell the land to third parties yet they have done that. They have sold the land to key individuals. Some American companies have put up very nice houses there. Instead of giving it back to the Kamba community and others who live there--- Mavoko is a cosmopolitan sub-county in Machakos County - those people have entered the said land and done fantastic development. It is a big shame that the Government wants to evict them. The other day, the County Commissioner of Machakos County issued a very terse notice that the said Kenyans be evicted forthwith, without due regard to the law relating to eviction."
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