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    "id": 1146085,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1146085/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard ole Kenta",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 420,
        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
        "slug": "richard-moitalel-ole-kenta"
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    "content": "“The Committee may proposes to the House sanctions against any Cabinet Secretary who fails to report to the relevant Committee implementation status without justifiable reasons.” It should be on record that this land has had controversy. The issue is contained in the Report of the Departmental Committee on Lands. It is an issue that has been debated in this House. The beneficiaries of this land are poor people who were left this land by somebody known as Samuel, who is since deceased. Somebody attempted to take this land through unorthodox and unlawful means. The land was surrendered back to the Government. It was given to the City County of Nairobi and allocated to the beneficiaries. The process reached the point of titling for the benefit of these people. They actually paid the registration and titling fees. Uchumi Limited got a fake title, which the Chief Registrar of Lands confirmed to be fake because the appended signature was not hers. This House already made a finding that these people should benefit from this land. A Cabinet Secretary (CS) can also act as an individual and as the supervisor of that ministry. You cannot come and say that the CS is not responsible. I do not think and I have not seen any decision of the Cabinet actually saying that this land should not be given to these people. In any case, the same Government took these peoples’ money and they were actually waiting for titling. The worst part of it is that the National Land Commission (NLC) had actually approved everything. They were even wondering. The Chairman appeared before us and he wondered why the CS was reluctant to actually finish the whole process. The titles were undersigned on the table of the Principal Secretary but somehow somebody wanted Uchumi to take the land and not even the military. This is because there was no consideration for the KDF. That passed from the KDF to the original owner. It was never transferred to the military. While that argument was still subsisting, somebody went and got their titles. Uchumi got their title and the title is not genuine. We are not sanctioning them now but we are asking Parliament to approve that sanction. I think the Leader of the Majority Party is jumping the gun because we have not reached that level of arguing whether the minister should be surcharged or anything like that. I think that should wait until we get the authority of the House."
}