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    "id": 1337452,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Starehe, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Maina",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13283,
        "legal_name": "Charles Kanyi Njagua",
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    "content": "My sister has talked about public toilets and utilities in Nairobi County. I want to indulge you on the same and say we need absoluteness in terms of control. This is because some of these utilities were constructed to bring affirmative action but have ended up in the wrong hands. Maybe, they were meant to support people living with disabilities, women or the youth. More often than not, we see them being controlled by other people who do not stand for the affirmative action. I really support this Bill to regularise everything in terms of matters lands that have been allocated to people living in the slums. There are people who have lived in some slums for more than 30 years. We advocate for regularisation of these lands because you cannot relocate a person who has lived in a place for maybe 30 or 40 years. Like what you have seen, people living in Marigu-ini Settlement Scheme in South B now being urged by the National Housing Corporation or the Ministry of Housing to relocate from that place without prior planning or definite plans on where they are going. However, if this land had been licensed to them, believe you me they would have developed very firm structures like you have seen in the estate of Pipeline and Embakasi South. They would have built a more developed settlement because of the titling. Unfortunately, now they are being forced to move from that place without certainty of where they are going. It is also a challenge for them because a person who has lived in an area for more than 40 years relocating to another place is also a big challenge. This amendment comes at a timely period where we need to address the issue of land in absoluteness. You can see we also need to address the issue of some of those institutions that have large chunks of land that they do not utilise. A case in point is the Kenya Railways Corporation Limited which has been allocated a lot of land by the Government. Some of the land is not utilised in a productive way, it lies idle. Given the challenge we have as Nairobi County, you see there is a big chunk of land that Railways own just behind the very congested Marikiti Market, very congested Muthurwa Market and the very congested Muthurwa residence area. This land lies idle while we have so much congestion in Marikiti and Muthurwa markets that makes even the trucks that bring goods to Marikiti Market park on the roadside. Traders have put their wares on the road at Haile Selassie Avenue at the behest of these huge chunks of land that Railway owns. Just behind them an area had been opened for trade until a private investor came on board and through, let us not call them scrupulous means, but through means that be, obtained that land and forced traders off that area. We need to be realistic as a people and as a Government, and we need to be progressive. In matters market, we need to have a policy that states clearly after every five years, there has to be more of Government land allocated to markets. We live in a progressive society, the population grows, the number of traders on our areas grows by day. We really need to have a progressive policy that puts aside land every five years for the population that grows to build markets especially in Nairobi, mostly in Starehe Constituency. All the areas that were demarcated for markets in Nairobi should be developed, and those markets licensed to individual market management committees that should be established by traders themselves. So that for posterity, even if there are those regular changes of the markets management committees, the titles will ever stay in the custody of the traders. I want to bring to your attention the issue of Mavoko that has been brought about by entitlement, by other people who believe that the East Africa Portland Cement if it had been The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}