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    "id": 680610,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) W.K. Njuguna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Winnie Karimi Njuguna",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute and support this Report of the Mediation Committee on the Land Laws (Amendment) Bill. Land matter is the mother of all communities and family conflicts due to lack of proper adherence to the existing laws. We have seen many places families fighting for land which they do not know the right owner. We also have historical injustices. Some counties, especially Kirinyaga County, claim land from other counties which has not been identified as theirs. We want these historical injustices to be corrected immediately after the conclusion of this Motion. People have suffered especially where there are land disputes. Some people register caveats or cautions on land because there are disputes. In most cases, the caveats are removed without the knowledge of one of the parties and this causes a big problem among the people who claim that land. Therefore, these proper laws are going to streamline all these problems and create peace in the country. People have settled in certain land for a very long time and they have multiplied yet they do not have ownership over that land. They do not have title deeds. This causes a lot of conflicts in communities, for example, the Mwea Irrigation Scheme. The area has a high agricultural potential, but people who own the land rent it out. They are not motivated to improve it because they do not have title deeds. If these laws are put in place, our people will get title deeds. This will solve a lot of problems because people will not steal other peoples’ land. At the Mwea Irrigation Scheme, owners of land only have copies of minutes written on a piece of paper to show evidence of ownership of land. When you have a title deed, nobody can claim your piece of land. These pieces of paper are not registered anywhere and the owners can even sell the land to many unsuspecting people, causing a lot of fights. I am very happy with these amendments. I congratulate the Mediation Committee for coming up with these laws, which are going to solve land historical injustices. Still in Kirinyaga County, there is a dispute which has been appearing in newspapers, about 54,000 acres of land which is being claimed by the neighbouring county, yet it does not belong to them. The documents are there and I am sure this land is going to be given to the right owners after these amendments, which clearly identify the legal ownership of land, are passed. Therefore, I support the Report. It is going to solve a lot of our problems in this country."
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