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    "id": 1146359,
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    "speaker_name": "Narok North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard ole Kenta",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": "(i) The lease for L.R No. 12158, which resulted from the amalgamation of the L.R No. already alluded to, which measure up to 7407 acres, which is 2963.1 ha, should be reverted to the Government of Kenya and declared as public land and allocated to Kandara Residents Association for their settlement within sixty (60) days of the adoption of the Report, which should have been carried out by now but should be done immediately after adoption of this Report, failure to which the Committee shall enforce appropriate sanctions pursuant to Standing Order 209(3) of the National Assembly Standing Orders. (ii) In consultation with the NLC, the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning should allocate the land excised from Del Monte Kenya Limited to Kandara Residents Association and County Governments of Murang’a and Kiambu in the ratio of 70:30 respectively, as per the NLC’s Gazette Notice 1995 of 2019, within 60 days of the adoption of this Report, failure to which the Committee shall enforce appropriate sanctions pursuant to Standing Order 209(3) of the National Assembly Standing Orders. This thing is a historical land injustice matter. It is something that should be pursued relentlessly so that the land ownership can revert to the original real owners. Hon. Speaker, on the matter of the implementation status of the Report of the Departmental Committee on Lands on its consideration of the Petition by former workers of the late Jacob Mayer Samuels regarding invasion and eviction of workers from their land in Roysambu Constituency by the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), I will also give a brief background. The Petition by former workers of the Late Mayer Jacob Samuels regarding invasion and eviction from their Land by the KDF was presented to the House on 27th June, 2019. The petitioners claimed that they were former workers of the late Mayer Jacob Samuels employed in his sisal processing farm and workshop industry on L.R. No. 5875/2 before his death in 1974. They claimed that the deceased’s family allowed them to continue staying on the Land after they could not pay their salaries. According to the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, the land in dispute of LR No.5875/2 was compulsorily acquired by the Commissioner of Lands vide Gazette Notices Nos.5151 and 5152 of 1985, pursuant to a request by the then Permanent Secretary in charge of the Department of Defence in the Office of the President. The NLC’s position is to the effect that the Department of Defence acquired land which was on a 99-year lease in 1986, and that the lease was to expire in 2005. Solio Construction Company Limited, which sold land to Kasarani Mall Limited was allocated LR No.5875/2 on 1st July 1999, and the allocation was done when another lease was subsisting, which brought about the issue of double allocation. Further, during deliberation on the matter by the Departmental Committee on Lands, the Committee heard that investigations by the NLC showed that Solio Construction Company had two sets of titles for the same property. The first was registered on 18th May, 1992, with different LR numbers, while the second set of title was registered on 20th January, 2001. Additionally, it also emerged that the transfer form that was used to transfer parcel of Land LR No.5875/2 was fraudulent as the officer who was purported to have signed the document disowned it while appearing before the Departmental Committee on Lands, and claimed that the State land was not validly-owned and that it was actually a forgery. The Departmental Committee on Lands tabled its report on 5th December, 2019, and made the following recommendations: (i) That the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, in consultation with the NLC and the Nairobi County Government complete the titling process for LR No.5875/2 within 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."
}