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"speaker_name": "Roysambu, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Isaac Ndirangu",
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"content": "So, Hon. Speaker, we should be very careful and ensure that our leadership is not gatekeeping for other interests out there. I say so because the Leader of the Majority Party was telling this plenary that this land belongs to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). He does not even know where the land is. The KDF, through the Ministry of Lands, had sought to make a compulsory acquisition of that parcel of land from a private owner. The Ministry of Lands offered Kshs3.5 million, but he refused. The Jewel owner went to court and the court upheld his petition and awarded him Kshs23 million. The Ministry of Lands and the KDF never paid at all. The only amount they said they paid to the court was Kshs3.5 million. In the documents in this Report, the Attorney-General, the Ministry of Lands, the Principal Secretary for Lands and the National Land Commission have all under oath admitted that, that money has never been paid. Compulsory acquisition, according to the Act, has to be prompt, just, fair and complete. Thirty years after the acquisition, that has not been done. Our investigations reveal that there are grabbers using the name of KDF to grab this parcel of land. Thirty years ago, since the KDF applied for compulsory acquisition, they have never reported there, until recently when the Ministry of Lands, the NLC and the Nairobi City County issued letters of allotment to the former workers of the Jewel company. From 1974 when the owner, Jacob Samuels died, those workers have been there. He died when he still had their arrears. When his sons came to inherit the property, they continued with the business, but did not complete paying those people. So, the people who brought this Petition are former workers of Jacob Samuels. They are saying Jacob Samuels disappeared. In fact, it is suspected he was either killed or deported courtesy of the grabbers. Sometime in 1999, a fake company, which had not even been incorporated at that time, applied for the allotment of this piece of land and it was issued with an allotment letter. Can you imagine a non-existent company being allocated land while the law is very clear that property cannot be owned by a non-entity? What we are saying is that this Report should be discussed today and adopted or rejected. It is important to note that this Report has already been laid on the Table of the House. What we are asking now, because of the special circumstances and for Government agencies to take the recommendations of this Petition seriously, is that it should be adopted. And the recommendations are straightforward."
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