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"speaker_name": "Ms. Mathenge",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development",
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"content": "Indeed, it is a shame that we have only been able to come up with the NLP after over 40 years of Independence. Yet, every five or six years, we have a conflict. When we ask why we have conflict, we are told we have various conflicts between communities and families because of land issues. So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is a policy that is very welcome and I want to recommend that all hon. Members of this House make it their Bible and make our chiefs have it as a Bible because this is the only way we shall be able to address the perennial conflicts that we have within our society. Indeed, we are told that the landmass of Kenya is 582,642 square kilometers. We know land is not elastic; land does not grow, yet the population of Kenya continues to grow. We have estimates showing that the focus of the population census that was done is close to 40 million people. It is obvious that each Kenyan cannot own a piece of land in this Republic of ours. We, therefore, need to make sure that the 20 per cent that we are told is between medium and high density agricultural and urban is utilized and, indeed, that this rate is also increased further. We have seen countries which have a less landmass and we often go to borrow and beg food from them. I think we should borrow a leaf from them and make optimum use of the land that is available to us. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I love this National Land Policy because, for the first time, it has also taken note of the vulnerable groups. It has taken note that a lot of our orphans â who today are totaling to over 3.5 million â should not be disinherited and it is going to take care of that. So, this is very commendable. It is also recommending that the Matrimonial Properties Act â which has sent a lot of people shivering â should be"
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