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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "With regard to Kenyatta University, I am impressed by the way the lady is running the university. The Ministers are here and they should help. I have also been to the university and I saw the problem of the squatters who are allowed by politicians to stay in the compound of the university. I think some leadership allowed a few people to occupy about 30 acres. There are now elite people staying there. The moment they knew that the land was being allocated, they would whisper, “You know I have got a plot at Kenyatta University”. So, people would run to the Ministry of Lands. Now they have title deeds and they are building an estate there. That is an issue the Government has to take care of. It was a pathetic situation, by the way. These people say that they have lived there for long. They told us that they went there as squatters but their children who are hardworking and are educated decided to settle on the next portion. That is why the accommodation there is better. We were thinking it was wrong for them to have been allocated that land, but since it was the leadership of this Government, land must be found elsewhere which those people can be allocated. I think the Japanese, through the initiative of the administration of the University, want to put up a very big referral hospital. I do not think the facility will serve a very useful purpose when you have squatters there and everybody encroaching the place. So, the Government needs to make a decision to remove those people. I do not know how it will do it. The Government could also fence them out and allocate them the land. After all, they are Kenyans. Let them stay there and we forget about that issue. After all, people have grabbed large tracts of land in this country and I am told the Government is thinking of putting money in the Budget to compensate them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is an interesting Motion and I support it. I am happy that the Ministers are here and are listening. There are times when we are discussing Motions here and there is nobody from the Front Bench. I wish these two Assistant Ministers were made full Ministers in their respective Ministries. I know they are very competent people. I am also happy that the Chairman of the Departmental Committee is here and listening to us so that he can note further recommendations hon. Members are making. I beg to support this Motion."
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