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    "id": 1268284,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1268284/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Starehe, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Maina",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13283,
        "legal_name": "Charles Kanyi Njagua",
        "slug": "charles-kanyi-njagua"
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    "content": "In some places we have overcrowded markets and behind them we have idle land owned by agencies like the Kenya Railways Corporation. This land can be leased to these traders and hence we would collect more revenue from these traders. For example, the land behind Muthurwa and Marikiti markets has been idle for a long time. It is purportedly owned by the Kenya Railways Corporation. At the same time, traders are crowded along Haile Selassie Road to the extent of placing their items on the road; half of the road is filled by traders. The congestion in this area is at another level. The county government should come up with ways of supporting these traders. Let us utilise all the idle land prudently so that people can benefit and for us to collect more revenue. Hon. Temporary Speaker, fraud and land grabbing is also a big problem for us. In Pangani, in my constituency, we have a problem where some of the people who were issued with leases went back to their countries and others cannot renew the leases. Cartels are harassing people and grabbing land there. Even as we evaluate the land rates, we should check who have been paying the rates. We should also check on the title deeds because this goes hand-in-hand with rating. In some circumstances, the owners of the title deeds are not the payers of the land rates. Someone else who has paid land rates for 10 years claim the ownership of the land whereas the owner of the title deed is not aware that someone else has been paying the land rates. This is a big problem in my constituency. As we purpose to re-evaluate the land rates, we should sensitize people on the status of their land. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I submit."
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