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"speaker_name": "Emgwen, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Josses Lelmengit",
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"content": "Asante sana, Mhe. Naibu wa Spika."
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"content": "Next is the Member for Alego Usonga, Hon. Atandi."
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"speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to support the Petition by Hon. Chonga. Issues touching on land are very unfortunate. There are cartels in the lands office that have the capability of changing title deeds and declaring genuine landowners landless. In my constituency, there have been cases where members of a community woke up one morning to find themselves landless, as a developer was forcibly moving them from their ancestral land. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not know what this country needs to do to kill the cartels that operate in various strategic sectors in the country. I know there are cartels everywhere. However, those dealing with land are particularly serious and bold. It is time this House takes action and does something that will scare them. The situation in Kilifi is very unfortunate because entire communities are rendered landless by a single individual. This House needs to be fierce about this issue. The Committee on Public Petitions has previously been challenged to be more fierce and effective in handling petitions. I urge the Committee to act swiftly on the numerous petitions related to land and present their reports to the House. Members should also avoid interfering with the reports brought before us. I had an experience with this Committee where a report submitted to the House differed from what was originally intended. I thank the Leader of the Majority Party for assisting us in rejecting that report and amending it. As Members of Parliament, we must be articulate and act according to the requests of our constituents. I support."
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"content": "The Member for Nyamira, Hon. Jerusha Momanyi. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"speaker_name": "Nyamira County, JP",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to support this Petition by Hon. Chonga, the Member for Kilifi South. Issues of land are so emotive, especially in Kenya. When such petitions arise, we as a House are obliged to solve the problems faced by our people. I urge the Committee on Public Petitions and the Committee on Implementation to address these matters thoroughly. We often discuss significant issues that affect our constituents here. However, these issues are sometimes not taken seriously because we fail to monitor their implementation. Hon. Ken Chonga has raised this issue here severally. This does not only affect the people in Kilifi. Land is an issue affecting most people, especially those who feel like they are being molested by those in power. It is our duty as a House to help resolve these problems. I support this Petition and call on this House to ensure that the petitions presented are acted upon. We should help the people who have been crying to us. If we only talk without seeing implementation, we risk becoming a useless House. Therefore, I support this Petition and urge the Committee on Implementation to move with speed in implementing this."
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"content": "Next is the Member for Masinga, Hon. Mwalyo."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to support Hon. Chonga’s Petition. Land grabbing has become a menace in the country. Some people have no morals. They know you possess a title deed, yet they still corrupt land officials to obtain fake titles. We should cultivate a culture of respecting ownership, and allowing others to own what belongs to them. The Bible says, and I quote: “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?” What is the use of grabbing so much land that you cannot use or develop? This is just disturbing people’s peace. I suggest the Committee on Public Petitions should resolve this issue so that the rightful owners, who have lived on this land for many years, can continue with their lives with their children, grandchildren, and ancestors. People should enjoy the environment where they have lived for long. This needs to be resolved. We must understand that if you take someone’s land, yours could be taken one day as well."
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"content": "Hon. Makilap."
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"speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting Hon. Chonga’s Petition. This issue does not affect Kilifi alone. It serves as a case study of how cartels are impoverishing innocent Kenyans by taking their land and rendering them landless and squatters on their own land. The question is, if this House passes the resolutions by the Committee on Public Petitions, then for them to become meaningful, they have to be implemented. This is essential so that all citizens have the opportunity to live decent lives and own land just like other Kenyans. The situation is even worse in areas where land demarcations and adjudications have not been conducted, especially in regions with communally owned land. Some of these cartels collude with county governments to steal land from innocent Kenyans. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have a case where some cartels from the community worked together with a “Chinese investor” and grabbed land in Kapturo Sub-location. When Government officers came to do land adjudication in that area, the Chinese investor went to court claiming the whole sub-location was his land and that he had a title. Everybody in that sub-location is now landless. This is a serious matter. I am talking about a true story. The case is in court. People realised that the Chinese investor who claimed to be mining diatomite had colluded with the county government to grab the whole sub-location as his, yet my constituents live there. This is a serious matter. We must protect this country from cartels. The cartels are made up of people who live within the sub-location itself. Cartels are everywhere, especially in areas that have not been adjudicated. That is a living example in Kapturo Sub-location of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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"content": "Baringo North whose residents are squatters on their own land because a Chinese investor grabbed their land."
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