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    "id": 1020091,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1020091/?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": "(i) A number of plots had been allocated to un-deserving persons. (ii) Genuine squatters were evicted to give way to new allottees who were not squatters. (iii) There were squatters on the ground without any allocation documents. (iv) There were cases of double allocation. (v) Missing list of original allottees. (vi) A number of allocations were on parcels of land reserved for conservation. (vii) Allocations had extended beyond the gazetted forest land. Following consultations between the NLC, Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and the area leadership, a strategy to resolve issues was identified as follows: (i) Clearing with the Kenya Forest Service on land degazettement for allocation and the acreages. (ii) Consultation with the local leadership. (iii) Constituting a working group for the purpose of identifying public purpose plots. (iv) Forming a technical team from the Ministry and from the NLC. (v) Lifting of the embargo on all clean titles by the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning. (vi) Ground inspection and verification of disputed records whose embargo will not be lifted. (vii) Review of allocations falling on public purpose land and those with double- allocations. (viii) Cancellation of titles as per the findings by the NLC during the review. (ix) Allocation of deserving squatters. A local committee comprising the Deputy County Commissioner (DCC), representatives of the National Land Commission (NLC), the area county assembly, chiefs and assistant chiefs and other leaders was established to handle the matter. A technical committee was also constituted, comprising officers from the Ministry and the NLC, for the same purpose, so that they could join the local leadership. The aim was to establish the undisputed titles. These are the findings: 1. Parcels of land without problems (clean titles) – 2,262. 2. Parcels with problems: (a) Court cases or caution – 76. (b) Under custody of the Registrar – 6. (c) Mentioned in the taskforce report as having issues – 110. (d) Double allocations – 8. (e) Duplicated numbers in the list (in the green card and in the RIM) – 11. (f) Sheet numbers not indicated on the Green Card – 14. (g) Missing parcels of numbers in the RIM – 306. (h) Duplicated numbers in the RIM – 5. (i) Parcels in the forest land that are not gazetted – 36. (j) Sub-divided parcels but not amended – 61. (k) Missing green cards – 623. As I conclude, the Committee made the following recommendations: 1. That the Cabinet Secretary should consider lifting the embargo on the clean title deeds, that is, the 2,262 titles, so that they can be issued. 2. That it would be prudent to engage the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources on the gazetting of forest land that was irregularly allocated. In response to (a), (b), (c) and (d), the Cabinet Secretary (CS) stated the following: 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."
}