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    "id": 1052135,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2197,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to speak to this Amendment Bill of 2019 by Hon. King’ara. He has made proposals to amend the Lands Act, 2012. What I understand from what he is proposing is that when you have a big piece of land and you want to surrender it for development like building a new city like Konza City, then it means that part of the installations to be built will include public utilities such as schools, hospitals and playgrounds. What happens in such a case is that you will find that new titles have been issued to private utilities, but when it comes to public utilities, those particular utilities are not given titles. What Hon. King’ara is seeking is to make sure that titles for public utilities are given priority. Similarly, he also states that every other public facility like a school which has no title should be issued with a title, so that public land is secured all over. This proposal could be coming from the national or county governments. This is a great thing because land grabbing is a very serious matter in this country. In fact, its technicalities have been used to disinherit people of their lands that were allocated to them. So, if they fail to meet the conditions in one way or another, then they end up losing that land or another person is issued with an allotment, and subsequently, a title deed even before they develop that land. Therefore, we have some loose ends in this law which are important to be cured now. This is a great amendment which covers a lot of lands all over the country especially where there are schools, hospitals or lands which are just set aside for public utilities. For that matter, you will realise that allocation of public lands as provided under Section 12 of the current Act has some deficiencies and loopholes which cunny or smart people can use to acquire public land. This is what it is seeking to cure. There have been cases where public lands are reallocated for whatever purposes when highly connected people just have appetite for public lands. For that matter, this Bill is seeking to cure that. Although this Bill had been moved in 2019, I still believe it involves county governments, and this matter will still go to the Senate because part of it will largely affect what is happening in the counties. The counties have a lot of trust lands under their custody, and they can easily take advantage and give the lands to private developers or any other person who want to develop them. Although there is a requirement that 10 per cent must be surrendered for public development, a lot of times it is not happening. At times, a public land is allocated for building a nursery school and then after sometimes, it is recovered and its records just disappear. So, where there was supposed 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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