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    "id": 1022599,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rachael Nyamai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13374,
        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
        "slug": "richard-ken-chonga-kiti"
    },
    "content": "The National Land Commission, in a letter dated 10th March, 2016 informed the County Government of Nairobi that since the lease of this land had expired and was never renewed, the land had reverted back to the Government. Therefore, it was in order for the County Government of Nairobi to allocate it to the society. The petitioners tabled these correspondences to the Committee. The petitioners said they accepted the offer and paid for issuance of allotment letters through their trustees. They also paid a fee to amend the index map, valuation, and to facilitate subdivisions. To this end, the petitioners prayed that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Lands, ensures that the upholding of the petitioners’ rights to occupy, reside and do business on land L.R.5875/2 in Roysambu Constituency is respected and expedite the issuance of leases. During the considerations of this Petition, the Committee also found out that four other parties claimed ownership to the same land. I would kindly urge the House to kindly pay attention. The first one was KDF. The Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Defence informed the Committee that KDF lawfully owns and occupies the land to date. He put it that it is L.R. 5875/2 in Roysambu Constituency. The Principal Secretary told the Committee that the said land was compulsorily acquired from Mr. M.J. Jacobs by the Ministry of Defence through the then Commissioner of Lands vide Gazette Notices No.5151 and No.5152 of 1985. The other institution that claimed the same land is Uchumi Supermarkets. The Committee engaged Mr. Mohamed Ahmed, the CEO of Uchumi Supermarkets Ltd, who said that Uchumi Supermarkets lawfully acquired land title L.R. 5875/2 in Roysambu Constituency through its subsidiary company, M/s Kasarani Mall Limited, from Solio Construction Company Limited in 2001 and paid Kshs85 million to M/s Solio Construction Company Limited. You can see the contradictions that the Departmental Committee on Lands was faced with. The Director, Legal Services of KCB informed the Committee that the bank had entered into a sale agreement with M/s Kasarani Mall Limited for the sale of land L.R.5875/2 in Roysambu Constituency to the applicant financed by the bank. The said parcel of land was used as security for the transaction. I would like to inform the House of the contradictions and the misuse of Government processes. At the same time, the Committee engaged M/s Jewel Complex Ltd, another interested party in this land. The Director of M/s Jewel Complex Limited informed the Committee that the company was an interested party as well in the matter and was in the process of purchasing this Land L.R.5875/2 in Roysambu Constituency and L.R. 23393 from Kasarani Mall. I would like to draw the attention of the House to an amalgamation of two pieces of land this time round from Kasarani Mall; a subsidiary of Uchumi Supermarkets Ltd, having indicated to M/s Jewel Complex Limited that it owned both parcels of land on condition that the two parcels were amalgamated. I would like the House to take note of the contradictions, misuse of Government processes. At this point in time, there was an attempt to amalgamate a piece of land whose ownership was not in question with another one whose ownership was in question. The Committee considered the Petition and all the submissions made to it and made observations, which I would like to read out to this House, on behalf of the Committee."
}