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"content": "System. This is a key component of the land reform process, and failure to fund this program, will derail the land reform process. Without a modern land information system, the rent seeking activities that you, sometimes, witness when you are doing a search will continue because we do not have anything in the budget to modernize, computerize and have an integrated Land Information Management System. The other one which is very crucial, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as people are fighting for resources out there in the sea, is the establishment of a hydrographic survey office for conducting maritime surveys, exploitation of marine resources, construction of ports, dredging of navigation safety and determination of territorial maritime boundaries so that, as countries are going out there in space and into the ocean looking for resources, capturing and delineating territory, we in Kenya do not have the machinery and process to determine our own boundaries. Therefore, when an issue like Migingo comes up, we have only ourselves to blame because we do not have anything in our systems to make sure that, that process is ongoing. Thirdly, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, an area which is important again and, that is where Questions are being asked constantly is: This year and last year, we did not get a single cent, and I repeat â we did not get a single cent â for the purchase of farms to settle the landless poor. That is a core poverty program and the Ministry requires at least Kshs2.5 billion for the program. Of course, you know the consequences of that. This year, for the operations of the Land Arbitration tribunal and Land Acquisition Tribunal, we did not, again, get a single cent! Which means that members of the Land Arbitration Tribunal and Land Acquisition Tribunal, who were gazetted during the last financial year, are going to operate in very dire circumstances. The two tribunals, as you know, of course, are established under the Government Lands Act and the Land Acquisition Act, respectively, to determine disputes arising under those particular statutes. The Boards are currently operational and failure to fund them will adversely affect their functions. Fourthly, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, again for the promotion and recruitment of staff to enhance succession management, there were no funds. Lastly, no money was allocated for the procurement of vehicles. The Ministry, being a key revenue earning Ministry, needs to go out there in the field to do valuations, surveys, planning and monitoring, and all that requires funds and vehicles. We do not have them. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as you know, our country has not had a clear, comprehensive and coherent land policy. The Ministry has been facing many challenges emanating particularly from inappropriate land use patterns, irregular allocations, inappropriate registry arrangement for sustainable use and difficulties of accessibility to land. This is compounded by the current numerous conflicting, cumbersome and outdated land and related laws that have contributed, for example, to a huge backlog of land adjudication cases and boundary disputes. Added to this is the emergence of uneconomical agricultural land subdivisions, especially in high potential areas mainly due to lack of a national land policy. The inadequate dissemination of the provisions of the Fiscal Planning Act and lack of resources â financial and human - to enable fiscal planning to precede land registration activities also contributed to this problem. Land adjudication involves ascertainment of rights and interests in trust land to enable land registration. There is great demand to complete land adjudication in the country. This is a"
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