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"speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to congratulate our friend, Hon. Wilberforce Oundo for this Bill. I also want to commend the Leader of the Majority Party for pushing a Private Member's Bill to a level where it sees the light of day. In Kenya, the issue of land is very pertinent. We deal with land control boards in our areas and I want to agree with the Hon. Members who have said that this has been a bed of corruption. The so-called special board sittings are always constituted in the night to transfer land. This has made many people especially very old grandfathers and grandmothers to lose their land. This Bill is welcome because it is aligning the land control boards in our areas to the representatives of the people in the constituency. This will give a Member of Parliament mandate to ensure that people do not lose their land. I read in the newspaper that somebody had used affordable housing land to borrow money from a bank. I thought this was an issue of the special board sittings where land is transferred without someone’s knowledge. This needs to be checked into. I support this Bill. There is also a big issue with the remuneration of these board members. The monies that are supposed to get to them, do not. We have many complaints. This Bill should be used to ensure that we affirm our support and get them to continue working. I support. Thank you."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": " The Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs, Hon. Gabriel Tongoyo."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Gabriel Tongoyo",
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"content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Speaker. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very progressive and important Bill. From the outset, I congratulate my brother, Hon. (Dr) Oundo, for coming up with this Bill. As it has been said by many speakers, the issues of land in this country are very emotive. The word, ‘‘land’’ means different things to different communities. Currently, the Land Control Boards are dysfunctional. They have been a root cause of corruption and insecurity in this country because they are so much riddled with corruption. The amendment as proposed by the Member will go a long way to try and streamline such issues, especially in communities where illiteracy is high. Members of the board have what they call, ‘‘Special sittings.’’ This is where they transact business and give consent at night and even on weekends. This Bill should be able to help the country secure food security, as it also aims to streamline the issue of zoning so that agricultural land remains for the main purpose. I consider this a very progressive Bill, and we should support it as a House and country. I support."
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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": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank Dr. Oundo for this Bill."
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"speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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"content": "The Member has struggled to bring up this particular Bill for seven years. I thank the broad-based administration which has the Leader of the Majority Party who supports this Bill. Prof. Oundo, this is the way forward. I am very sure if we were in our old state of Kenya- Kwanza alone, this Bill would not have seen the light. Thank God for the presence of the broad- based Government where Members of Kenya-Kwanza are able to appreciate a brilliant idea from a man who has been on the other side of the political divide."
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"content": "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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"content": "We are here to support it because it has decentralised the power of decision-making to the grassroots, the sub-county. We want to make it not only a constituency but a sub-county because nowadays, one constituency may have three or four sub-counties. Land is an emotive issue in Kenya that people subdivide other people's land even at night. People who have the financial muscle can summon the Land Control Board and do their thing. This is the game- changer in protecting private and public land throughout the Republic of Kenya. Leader of the Majority Party, thank you for supporting this particular matter."
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"content": " Hon. Julius Rutto."
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