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    "id": 1369403,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "After the 1992 case, the land buying companies and cooperative societies emerged. They would walk into any empty vast land, entice gullible Kenyans who wanted somewhere to settle and issue them with share certificates. In many cases, this was properly regularised. In other cases, the matter was never regularised. The issue of the ownership of the EAPC went all the way to the National Land Commission and the courts. I can only sympathise with innocent buyers. This begs the question: What do we do with racketeers and profiteers? Because of the social and political influence they wield, they are able to entice people to purchase land while knowing that there is no genuine title deed. As a country, those are the people we must deal with ruthlessly, perpendicularly, and once and for all. This presents a case example. I have sat here patiently because I was doing some research. Listening to people talk is like conducting an interview. It is a questionnaire that they are filling for me. This is where all the security agencies and the Government need to weed out this group. We have the other parcels of land, like the Kirima land and many other such cases in this country. I, therefore, urge for soberness. I would like to tell the Departmental Committee on Lands that this is the time they need to show their expertise in land administration and information management system. They need to resolve this matter once and for all. Finally, as I conclude, Government is a Government in perpetuity. The current Government cannot remain blameless. These things were done in the name of the Government. During campaigns, we were very categorical that the suffering of people through enforced eviction will be addressed. I thought there was an Act of Parliament on how to deal with eviction, whether illegal or lawful eviction. If we do not have such an Act of Parliament, I want to again implore upon the Departmental Committee on Lands to develop that Bill. This will ensure that whenever we have disputes, there is a humane way to evict people. We are talking about housing. Once a structure that houses people is demolished, we are reducing the housing stock in the country. We cannot run away from that fact. I want to urge my colleagues that this should give us an impetus to change the law and strengthen our land administration system. We need to debate what constitutes a title deed and its sanctity? What is it that you are looking for? It is not just the space that matters, but the interest you hold in the spirit of that space. For all those who want to go and buy land, failure to consult a consultant or an expert at that particular moment, might be cheaper for you, but cheap is expensive in the long-run. There can never be any substitute to consulting a consultant or expert in whatever you do. Thank you, Hon Mbui. We hope that whoever listens has heard and as you said, even if they do not listen, we have talked to them. It is upon them to pick up from here and solve these matters once and for all."
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