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    "id": 1020090,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1020090/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms). Rachael Nyamai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13374,
        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
        "slug": "richard-ken-chonga-kiti"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am responding to a Statement sought by Hon. Jonah Mburu, the Member for Lari Constituency. It concerns lifting of an embargo and settling issues surrounding titles for Kinale Settlement Scheme in Lari Constituency in Kiambu County. He sought to know: (i) The state of implementation of the recommendation of the Report by the Land Administrative Directorate with regard to lifting of that embargo. (ii) The steps the relevant Ministry is taking to ensure that the 306 missing parcel numbers in the Reduce Level (RL) ends and 623 individual green cards are found and given to the rightful owners; and, (iii) When the relevant Ministry will settle and conclude this matter with an everlasting solution considering that rifts between the residents occupying parcels of land and those with illegal title deed has been persistent for too long. I would like to respond as follow. Kinale Forest was declared a forest through Declaration No.48 of 1943 and the forest declared a central forest through Legal Notice No.174 of 1964. It is an old matter and I will not go into its details. Kinale Settlement Scheme was, therefore, established on the escarpment, Kinale/Block 1. That is what it is called. Planning, survey, identification of squatters, processing of their allocations and issuance of title deeds was done under the leadership of the then Provincial Administration. The process was, however, marred with allegations of irregularities at that time. The Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning set up a task force in the year 2002 to look into the allegations of irregularities in the process. The task force placed an embargo on the registration of those title deeds. The matter was then taken up by the then National Land Commission (NLC) in 2013, following complaints made to the NLC. Some of the allegations of irregularities in the process of identification by the ministerial task force are captured in the report that is attached. The Hon. Member can access it. It touches on the following issues: 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."
}