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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you cannot go to countries like Singapore, Korea and Malaysia and do a major project like infrastructure or building hotels and fail to get land. Singapore is a city state larger than Nairobi and yet if you go there with capital, you cannot fail to get land. Today, we cannot get land in Nairobi because we have allocated many of the pieces of land on freehold basis. We are now faced with a situation where the Government wants to build institutions, roads and infrastructure but there is no land. I agree with the hon. Member that because of corrupt deals within the Ministry – and we are trying to make sure that these activities are minimized – somebody who was issued with a leasehold title converts it into a freehold title. That ties our hands forever and we cannot be able to control development; we cannot be able to plan land use because once the land is freehold, then the Government cannot interfere with it in any way. That is because it is absolute proprietorship. So, I want to assure hon. Kaino that, as we speak today - and I want you; if you could point out to me any settlement scheme where titles have been given, and which are anything other than freehold, and then I will be surprised because all of them are freehold. But in schemes where the Government has bought land from, for example, a land owner, but it is not used as a settlement scheme, if it is planned for development, we can be able to give leaseholds."
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