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    "content": "been irregularly or illegally allocated. That Commission was appointed by the President on the 20th June, 2003. So you can see that at the time, it was not lost to the Government in place that within six months they would form such a commission with a broad mandate to look at an area that affected land. This Commission subsequently made its Report which is with us. The country has been clamoring for the implementation of that Report. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thereafter, the Land Policy regulation started in earnest in the year 2004. The first Draft of the National Land Policy was ready by the year 2005 and in September 2006 the draft was released for debate and analysis by the public. The point I am making here is that the draft that I am presenting today has, in many ways, been in the public domain. There have been various interventions at various occasions on the content of the Land Policy and its formulation. Over the four or so years, it has undergone review and redraft until we came with this subsequent copy that was laid on the table and which was approved by the Cabinet. I must say that as a Minister, my role was at the tail end of the exercise to try and finalize the exercise for presentation to the Cabinet and thereafter publish the document and table it in the House for debate. So it is a mistake to say that this Land Policy has been driven by non-State actors. This is one of the policy formulations which were initiated by the Government of Kenya and the Government has been in control through its various initiatives and has convened various workshops. I am glad that the relevant Departmental Committee under the able leadership of Mr. Musyimi has on occasions looked at this draft policy and made their comments."
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