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    "id": 1265093,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Petition by Hon. Bady Twalib. The Petition is very important. It is one of the many other issues of similar nature. The National Land Commission needs to up their game. There is a collusion between the NLC and KeNHA especially on issues of land valuation. You can imagine a farmer with half an acre of land where KeNHA has designed a road yet they have not been compensated. This makes me want to support the Petition. In the last Parliament, this House passed the Land Value Index Bill which has not been operationalised. The Bill was meant to address the disparities in land compensation across the country. As a House, even as we support this Petition, we need to see how we can address corruption at the NLC. I am happy His Excellency the President took the valuation last month back to the Ministry of Lands. There are many people who for many years, have been waiting to be compensated either through road projects or even water projects. Even in water projects, the ministries rushed into signing contracts where there is no place to develop. We also need to take issue with the chief executive officers, ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and the parastatals which are implementing Government projects, that before they sign contracts, they should make sure that the land is available, and owners are compensated. I want to support the Petition that the people of Jomvu who have been affected by the road must be paid. I support."
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