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    "id": 1076728,
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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": "With regard to recommendations, one of the policy recommendations is that the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning should have stopped dealing with cash by 30th May, 2021. The National Treasury should allocate a vote to the State Department of Physical Planning as I had clearly explained and state the projects that should be funded. The Government, through the Cabinet, should review the current policy of centralising implementation of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT). The National Land Commission has a challenge with pushing for ICT projects because this is being done at the Ministry in charge of ICT and they are saying that this causes challenges. This year they recorded zero in terms of implementation and they could not do anything. The Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning should expedite full implementation of digitisation of land registries. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you notice that digitisation of land is up there. Most important is to ensure that county offices are working. The county offices need to have infrastructure such as computers. The Ministry has managed to digitise Nairobi and its environs and they are planning to go to the counties. Therefore, the recommendation of the Departmental Committee on Lands was that we need to see more construction of proper offices within counties. This is where they have requested for funds to construct offices including one in Wajir. The northern region does not have a proper office and this is one of the recommendations. With regard to financial recommendations, the Committee recommends that the House approves a vote of Kshs1,437,200,000 for the National Land Commission. I have said that this is very low. The National Land Commission has never received funding for development and this is a concern. They need to deal with issues of counties. Vote 112, Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning comprises of recurrent expenditure of Kshs3,044,600,000 and development expenditure of Kshs2,411,700,000. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to just state the financial recommendations made by the Departmental Committee. The Departmental Committee recommends that Kshs450 million be reduced from the processing, titling and registration of title deeds in the Land Policy and Planning Programme in the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and raise the allocation for settlement to Kshs250, as I had clearly explained. This Kshs250 million is going to purchase land for a group called “Taita Taveta Teachers”. The land is in Kisauni and it takes more than half of Kisauni Constituency. It is a matter that was passed by this House. Therefore, we really appreciate that this has finally been done. An amount of Kshs. 100 million is to be increased in the Physical Planning Project so that the Department of Physical Planning can be facilitated to work. As I had said, it had been given very low amount and I have clearly also explained that it requires about Kshs1.9 billion. Therefore, this is just to kick start the work of the Department of Physical Planning which has been created. An amount of Kshs.50 million will go towards construction of land registries to boost the digitisation programme. I would also like to highlight other recommendations that the Committee made. The National Treasury should avail additional funding in the future by Kshs700 million to go to the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning for the digitisation process. This is so that we can see many of our pieces of land in counties being digitised. Those who have tried to experience what is happening in Nairobi know the advantage we are talking about. Someone can get a search within less than three minutes. An amount of Kshs. 300 million be provided to settlement. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Kshs65 million be provided for construction of land registries; Kshs600 million to go to the National Land Commission; Kshs74 million to the NLC for purchase of vehicles; and another Kshs64 million to facilitate recruitment of technical staff. 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."
}