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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Statement sought by my brother, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, on rentals, which are being paid by the County Government of Kakamega. Counties are supposed to be landlords. They should not spend so much public money renting premises. They should be the ones being paid rent. Therefore, this is something that needs to be investigated so as to know how long those leases are and when they will expire. Also, OSR is totally misused by the counties and its accountability is wanting. It needs to be streamlined. We need to be very clear as a Senate how OSR is collected especially from market centres. The money is not properly utilised. There are people who become rich in the villages using that money. County governments which misuse OSR also become rich. So, the Statement sought by Sen. (Dr) Khalwale is quite timely. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is also a Statement by Sen. Chute on land grabbing which is a big disease in our country. We recently saw in Mavoko very magnificent buildings and properties going into the air. The people had even gone to seek loans from banks, but they were blown and destroyed completely. Some of them had their life savings being destroyed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this disease called ‘grabbiosis’ or land grabbing in Kenya, must be dealt with, once and for all. There are few very smart land grabbers who even go to the extent of acquiring title deeds for grabbed land and sell it to unsuspecting Kenyans. Later on, when investigations are done and people go to court, those titles are nullified. These Kenyans then suffer by losing their life savings and sometimes even die out of shock from the destruction of their properties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Statement."
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