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    "id": 971090,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/971090/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": "the process. People get maimed and the right to property is interfered with. People suffer during evictions and resettlements. Those are things that we see in one area of the country - the Coast region. We see evictions of families from their tracts of land. Why? It is because somebody went to court. First, if you look at how he obtained the title deed that he takes to court... Many of the people that I lead have never known or understood that for one to claim that land belongs to him, he needs to have a paper that shows it. They live on land but somebody goes to Ardhi House, gets a paper, goes to court, gets an injunction order and eventually a family is evicted. The judge does not look at the process, but gives the police orders to go and evict. He does not consider that the person who is being evicted will lose some fundamental rights in the process, especially the right to a dignified life. The person is thrown out of the place and people do not care where he or she will sleep or eat. Probably, this Parliament requires to enact a law on evictions and resettlement so that, as a judge gives an edict or a verdict on how to get people out of a piece of land which, even if we look at the historical aspects of it, the person who has been given the land does not own it… So, the historical land injustices that we keep on talking about get perpetuated and worsened by courts in this country."
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