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    "id": 1009606,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1009606/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ol Jorok, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Michael Muchira",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13461,
        "legal_name": "Michael Mwangi Muchira",
        "slug": "michael-mwangi-muchira"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to support the Land (Amendment) Bill, 2019, sponsored by Hon. King’ara. The issue of public land management has been problematic for a long time. That is why Article 62 of the Kenyan Constitution 2010, stipulates how to manage public land. During subdivision of land, there is always a provision for public land, but I do not know what happens after this provision. Later on, these lands are always grabbed. This amendment will be handy to ensure that we secure the public land because public land is an important landmark for future development. We find ourselves in a situation where we want to build a school in our constituencies, but find the area that was set aside for construction of schools has been grabbed. You end up looking for land to buy and build schools and in most instances, it is difficult to get land. When you get land, you find it is quite expensive to purchase and this leads to loss of taxpayers' money, like it happened in Ruaraka land. It is important to note that during demarcation of land, once the land is demarcated we should ensure that the registrar- as the Bill is stipulating- not only registers that land, but we also secure it to ensure that there is no invasion either by squatters or land grabbers. We already have public land in our community like where schools stand, which is not registered. We need to start by registering those. We need to ensure that all public land has titles so that we avoid this land grabbing. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support."
}