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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kesses, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Rutto",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for according me this moment to comment on this Land (Amendment) Bill by Hon. Simon King’ara. First of all, I want to thank the Mover for coming at the right time, and understanding the current challenges public institutions are going through on matters land. We have experienced a lot of challenges regarding squatters and people taking over public land that is idle without registration documents. Subsequently, when Government institutions realise that the specific lands allocated to them have been taken over through scrupulous processes, they want to use force infringing on the human rights of the occupants of the land who were innocently duped to acquire the same. It is very important to note that this amendment Bill seeks to address existing gaps. For quite some time, public land has arisen through many processes. Most of them were acquired through the normal process of procurement for a specific purpose. Thereafter, the commencement of the same purpose or objective might have taken time and the land remained idle. Some particular public utilities have arisen through subdivision as guided by the Physical and Land Use Planning Act on matters to do with the two per cent provided for, or four per cent in case of municipalities, but this particular land remains idle. At some point, an individual with a motive or intention of grabbing it develops some plans and converts the ownership only on a paper supported by public servants, more so the registrar of lands. You only come to realise much later that the land is no more. It has been acted upon by subsequently being sold and somebody else has taken occupation. It becomes a problem to reclaim it. Therefore, this Bill seeks to hasten the issue of registration of land. It provides that after a particular matter has been adjudicated upon, land has been administered and the process completed, either by the guidance of the National Land Commission, or by any other process, it is incumbent upon the land registrar to give priority to that particular parcel to be registered forthwith in the name of the given institution, or the particular purpose that it is meant to serve. 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."
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