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    "id": 1002290,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1002290/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important Petition before this House. The issue of lands registries and how we, as a country continue to manage them, after 56 years of Independence, leaves a lot to be desired. This House must put down its foot and ensure Kenyans get better services from the lands offices. Every successive Government has been promising us that they would digitize our lands registries. I remember some Members of this House who have served as Cabinet Secretaries in the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning promising the same, but they left the office without digitalizing land registries in his country. With the issue of COVID-19 and fraud in those offices, we should move with speed to manage our lands registries on a digital platform. Unfortunately, and as is the case and as is typical of us as a country, it ends with promises. Year in, year out, funds are allocated for the same to be done, but nothing seems to happen. I am sure this matter will end up with the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources, I urge my colleagues before giving a final word or authority on how this issue need to be prosecuted, to tell us how much every successful government has spent in digitising our lands record and why we have not been successful. If there are people that are found to have pilfered these funds, the report they bring to this House should include the names of those people so that they are surcharged because we need to sort out this issue of lands in this country once and for all."
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