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    "id": 115300,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/115300/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in 1995 the council was issued with a leasehold title for the land under LR.No.MN1/9314 measuring 3.756 hectares for 99 years with effect from 1st December, 1980. The user remained the same, that is, for public recreational purposes. However in 1996, the plot was irregularly subdivided into two plots that is No.1916 and No.1917, respectively measuring 1.5111 hectares and 1.856 hectares, wherein the user for parcel No.M11916 was changed to residential. Considering that, that is the only public beach along the entire Kenyan coastline accessible to the public and that is within the Mombasa municipality and on the grounds that the Mombasa Municipal Council was holding the land in trust for the public, the subdivision and change of user was illegal. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the council further compounded the illegality by subletting the said land LR.1/9916 to Sambu Limited for a period of 99 years from 1st December, 1980, again for residential use. In this respect the Ministry is aware that were it not for the fear of public outrage, Sambu Limited would have turned the recreational park into a concrete jungle by developing residential houses thereon. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am also aware of the ongoing campaign by the Directors of Tsavo Limited that they be allowed to develop the land. It is also apparent from the Ministryâs record`s that the decision to sub-divide the land and sub-let a portion thereof was influenced by the Executive in a manner that undermined and compromised the overriding public interest. Under the circumstances and in order to safeguard public interest and protect the Jomo Kenyatta Public Beach from land grabbers, I have directed the Commissioner of Lands to revoke the title issued to the Mombasa Municipal Council and issue one title to the Permanent Secretary, the Treasury, to hold this vital piece of land in trust for the public. Finally, I wish to point out that the Ministry of Lands does not receive directives and orders from the President, the Vice-President or the Prime Minister in any form or shape that may lead to unjustified illegal or irregular allocations of public land as was the"
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