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    "content": "going to generate about Kshs18 billion per year. I think the development expenditure in the Ministry will be true investment for this country. It will be a one-off expenditure and the revenue will be realized to perpetuity. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with the Land Reform Policy, we expect to open up land management system in this Republic. I had an opportunity to discuss with the Minister. He told us at a Committee meeting that an investor visited this country with a Kshs30 billion investment and asked; “Can I get land?” The Minister was stranded. He did not know whether there was land or there was no land. The answer was in fact, there was no land. Indeed, physically we can see that there is land. The investor unfortunately went to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania and put up the investment there. That is an opportunity lost because we are not clear on how best we use our land. It is important that we open up this land system so that it can be dealt with transparently. I want to borrow from an initial speaker in light of the fact that initially, we had the Ministry of Lands and Settlement being together. I do not know what the position is today. However, the wisdom of that was that as you plan land, you also plan settlement. A case in point is Kisii where the land has been subdivided until we risk having only houses planted on the land and no space for productive use. If the Ministry would be as originally constituted as the Ministry of Lands and Settlement, these issues could be addressed. The other thing is that we are pursuing Vision 2030 and our land system is critical to the realization of Vision 2030. Land is the platform on which each and every activity that we want to undertake is to be done. It is, therefore, more than urgent that we fast- track the Land Policy approval so that we can be clear and take stock of how much land we have and how best we can utilize it. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, reading the forward of the Land Policy Paper as articulated by the Minister, the whole philosophy is to enhance optimal use and management of land."
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