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"speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rachael Nyamai",
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"content": "and eviction of the workers from their land in Roysambu Constituency by the KDF. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to start by thanking the Committee on Implementation for following-up these two Reports and ensuring they are implemented. Since, they were tabled in this House on 21st November, 2019, and 5th December, 2019, respectively, I had a chance of going through them and commend the Committee on Implementation for a good job of ensuring we do not pass resolutions in vain. Before I continue, I would like to say as a House and the Departmental Committee on Lands, we value the importance of Del Monte in this country and their contribution to employment and revenue collection. So, as we considered these two Reports, we knew the kind of institution we were dealing with. I believe the Committee on Implementation had the same consideration. Kindly, allow me to refer to the recommendations by the Committee on Implementation regarding two issues. In our Report on irregular renewal of leases of land by Del Monte Kenya Limited, we made two recommendations. First, that the Director of Survey Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning should resurvey the land held by Delmonte Limited in Murang’a and Kiambu Counties. On this recommendation, the Committee on Implementation notes that this has been done. So, they were satisfied and happy. We are also satisfied, as a Committee, that our recommendation was fully implemented. Second, that the NLC investigates the circumstances under with L.R.Nos.10862, 10741, 11312, 2953, 4873 and 11146, said to have been surrendered to the Government by two companies, namely Sassa Coffee and Rappit B Limited, were irregularly acquired by Del Monte. The Committee on Implementation notes that this has not been done, and it further recommends that L.R.No.12158, which resulted from amalgamation of L.R.Nos.10741, 10862, 11312 and 2952, should be reverted to Government of Kenya as public land and should be allocated to residents of Kandara Residents Association. Further, the Committee on Implementation recommends that the land excised from Del Monte should be allocated to Kandara Residents Association and the County Governments of Murang’a and Kiambu. Our Committee mentioned this and I can see that the Committee on Implementation agreed with us. On the matter of the ratio, I believe it does not belong to this House, so as the Member for Kitui South and Chair, I agree with this thought. I would like to go straight to a very important matter, because I can see that my time is up. This is on the Petition by former workers of the late Mayer Jacob Samuels regarding the invasion and eviction of the workers from their land. Here, the Committee on Implementation raised a very sensitive recommendation on removal of a Cabinet Secretary (CS). In as much as I agree with the Report, I request them to expunge this part. This is because it is unnecessary and brings out a different issue on the implementation of the Report. The circumstances under which a CS can be removed are clearly stated. The reasons as to why the CS Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning did not implement is because of---"
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