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"speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No.3 of 2009 on National Land Policy laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday 18th November, 2009. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I get into the substance of the policy itself, allow me as a prequalification to say that the issue of land has been with us for more than a century. Indeed, the controversies and conflicts surrounding land started in the late 19th Century, as we understand them today. After the First World War, there were various land commissions which were established to look into the various land issues from the perspective of the colonial Government at that time and later on with the view of looking at the interest of the indigenous people who were referred to as the natives. In the year 2002, when various political actors were campaigning for elections from all sides of the political divide, there was generally an undertaking which can be seen from the various manifestos published by the political parties at that time. All of them did undertake to review and look at the question of land as a whole and formulation of the land policy. As a matter of record, if any Member of Parliament is interested to look at the various manifestos at the time, they can confirm what I am saying. The issue of land was given prominence and therefore, it was not a surprise that when the NARC Government came to power in the 2003, very quickly and within six months, there was established the Ndungâu Commission. This was to look into grabbed land or land that had"
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