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    "id": 956174,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rehema Jaldesa",
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        "legal_name": "Rehema Dida Jaldesa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I apologise for that. I would like to read a Petition regarding land dispute between the residents of Burat Isiolo County and the Kenya Defence Forces School of Infantry. I, the undersigned, on behalf of the concerned residents of Burat in Isiolo County, draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT, residents of Burat settled on and have been enjoying uninterrupted stay and utility of their ancestral land, measuring approximately 10,000 acres, since Independence until the Kenya Defence Forces appeared in 1982 with the intention of setting up a military base; THAT, in appreciation of the security importance of the presence of the Kenya Defence Forces in the region, the community donated 100 acres to the Kenya Defence Forces to set up a school of infantry; THAT, to the astonishment of residents, the Kenya Defence Forces has overstretched the boundary of the land donated to it and has been slowly encroaching on community land and is now planning to displace the residents from their land; THAT, the Kenya Defence Forces School of Infantry has been laying claim to 10,000 acres of land in Burat in Isiolo County, currently occupied by over 30,000 residents, including approximately 3,000 pupils spread across eight public primary schools and two secondary schools; THAT, the land in question is community land owned in trust by the County Government of Isiolo and there is no record with the county government or the defunct Isiolo County Council to the effect that the Kenya Defence Forces owns the said land; THAT, on 15th August 2019, the Principal Secretary for the State Department of Defence issued a one-month notice to residents to vacate their known ancestral land or face forceful eviction; THAT, during the 11th Parliament, the Departmental Committee on Lands visited Burat to investigate the dispute between residents and the Kenya Defence Forces, but a report of the investigation was not tabled in the House by the time the term of that Parliament ended; THAT, the National Land Commission visited the area three years ago and agreed that the status quo be maintained, whereby the Kenya Defence Forces would only occupy the 100 acres donated by the community and the community would retain the remainder of their ancestral land; The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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