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    "id": 1022654,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think the important thing for this House to appreciate is this House passed a law which was called Cap. 295, the Land Acquisition Act. It was in operation then until it was repealed in 2012 with the review of the land laws to align them with the new Constitution. That was the law and that law was used not just for the Roysambu land. It was used even to acquire all the lands on all these roads and bypasses. What I want to remind Members is that in the 1990s, there was a phenomena called the land grabbing mania in this country and people tried to identify every land that the Government had acquired yet the Government had not moved in. It was purported that it was vacant and empty and it was grabbed either by the squatters or using the squatters or in this case by Solio Construction which was then sold to Uchumi and Uchumi is now trying to sell it to somebody else. However, all that is irrelevant because the issue is: Was the land alienated or un-alienated? In 1986 when the notice of taking possession was issued and filed within the file, the land became alienated to the Government of Kenya, which means it was not available for allocation to any other person without the concurrence of the DoD. There is a principle I believe the professor will tell us, 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."
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