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    "id": 632240,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "interested in making the NLC dysfunctional. Indeed, we have fought very hard in that Committee to ensure that the NLC gets a Budget to execute its functions and to protect it from an aggressive Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development. The amendments the Committee will be proposing will interest every Member and we will convince the Members that, indeed, it is for the proper functioning of the land sector in this country. This Bill, with the amendments that we propose, will achieve sanity and ensure that there is no constant conflict between the Ministry and NLC. Nobody has interfered with the NLC’s powers to regulate, manage and administer public land. Public land is defined very clearly in the Constitution and nobody has made any attempt in these amendments to curtail the power of NLC. In fact, there was an attempt to curtail the power of the NLC as it were. The creation of the County Land Management Boards was stifling the capacity of the NLC to operate freely in administering land at the county level. We are now proposing their removal and that is for the good of NLC. Today, I was talking to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NLC. He was complaining that this Bill has arrived here without proper consultations. He even agrees that, indeed, creating a County Land Management Board at the county level that has members nominated and approved by county assemblies is curtailing their independence as an independent constitutional commission."
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