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    "id": 954,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "The final point that I want to make, unless Kenyans are prepared to live together sharing the territory called Kenya, resolving conflicts in land will continue to bog us from centuries to century. We cannot live in a situation where some people in this country, let us say in Taita Taveta, own 90 per cent of the county and the rest of the community is confined to 30 per cent of the land. When you go to Taveta Constituency itself, you find about three or four individuals owning more than 95 per cent of the land in that county. The problem that we have with land is that, and I can tell you without fear of contradiction, we have speculation on land. We have people who cannot access land, because it is in the hands of a few people, who are using it for speculative purposes, or they have public land which they are not using, and is idle. I would ask this hon. House, by the time we bring the land Bill, especially in relation to public land, that anybody who is holding public land and is not using it, that land should be given back to the public. It should go back to the public and given to the people of Kenya, who have nowhere to stay or nowhere to earn a living. I think that, that is a good call. It is not for cosmetic reason that we said in our Constitution that every Kenyan must be guaranteed access to land. It may not mean ownership but every Kenyan has a right to access and security to land. I believe that with the fullness of time; when we have the full regime of the law relating to the land sector, we will be able to resolve these matters once and for all."
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