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    "id": 1124498,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. I take this opportunity to thank my senior colleague, Sen. Ndwiga, who is also the Chairperson of the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Committee where I am the Vice-Chairperson for bringing up this Petition on behalf of the trustees of the Catholic Diocese of Embu. I will say three things. One, from this Petition and linking it with what other colleagues have said, it is very clear that the National Land Commission (NLC) is the worst enemy when it comes to land disputes. Instead of the NLC ensuring that there is propriety in land ownership, they are perpetrating what would easily amount to criminal acts. I say this because it is unimaginable how the NLC would issue a title deed to the Catholic Diocese of Embu in 2012 for a lease period of 99 years and then four years down the line, they are revoking the title deed and issuing the same to another private institution. What is even more baffling is to learn from the Petition that the Diocese of Embu has been running the children’s home on that land for many years. At no time has the Child Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK) been involved in the running of that home. All over a sudden, the Society comes in and lays a claim on the land and the home. The NLC tries to justify that by issuing a title deed. Personally, I have had run-ins with the NLC on the issue of compensation of land for persons affected by the road project from Kibwezi to Migwani. It has taken my intervention and that of the Senator of Makueni, my brother Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Junior, for the NLC to begin looking at the process of compensating the land owners. To date, that compensation has remained a sham. Nobody knows who is being compensated and the procedure being used to compensate people. On the strength of this Petition from the Senator of Embu, I know you will direct that this Petition be handled by the relevant Committee. Over and above on the direction where this Petition will go, I urge that you direct that the NLC makes an appearance before a Committee of the Whole so that we deal with this Petition and other issues attendant to the operations of the NLC. I support."
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