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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to make some two or three suggestions. The main important thing about land management and land administration is the integrity of the transactions. If you are be able to prove to anybody that everything done in a transaction has some integrity and that integrity is maintained, even the present law can be administered. The problem has been: How do we get so many clauses and laws and follow the integrity with paper work? Everybody needs land in Kenya; from the young to the old. With this in mind, a suggestion on how this integrity can be maintained is contained in this document. It only needs a proactive implementation. That is very clear in Section 163. Without taking too much time, I would like to laud the Minister for including the work of public /private partnership. All over the world, if we wait until the civil servants do everything--- They do the survey, administration and judgment, we will end up with the frustrations that have been around us all the time. The moment we bring in the private sector and a check mechanism which is computer-based, integrity can be guaranteed. Last but not least, the openness of the data that we deal with is very crucial. I can tell you there is nothing as good as telling a thief in public that he or she is a thief. The thief will run away. The moment we make the data available to the public--- We should find a way of making it open such that each and every person has accss to it. If you want to know how many transactions took place at the lands office today, you can be able to see them instead of discovering that your land was stolen sometime ago. If we do that, even the people who are planning to steal land will stop. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the proposed national land law will be contained in a big book. I do not think there is a chance that it will be done and become a final document. It will have to be reviewed the way we are doing with our Constitution. We will look at issues which come day by day. Even technology changes day by day. I laud the Minister because he has already put a comment on that, by introducing a new lands information management law which will be guiding the implementation of this Policy. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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