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    "id": 138619,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musila",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 94,
        "legal_name": "David Musila",
        "slug": "david-musila"
    },
    "content": "On fiscal planning, most of our urban centres are not planned. Therefore, you have haphazard developments coming up in most of these areas. This must fall squarely on the Ministry of Lands, that the majority of urban centres are not planned. This goes to support what the previous speaker said in as far as the issue of title deeds is concerned. Even in major urban centres, people have no title deeds to the land that they own. This retards development. It is a matter that he must address as soon as possible. On the issue of land records, I think if the Minister cared to look at the speeches made by his predecessors in this House, we have been told time and again that the Ministry of Lands was in the process of computerizing records and ensuring that they are properly maintained. In this country, we still have land records being handled manually. I think this is one of the biggest problems that we have in land administration in this country. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you go to the lands office, you will see heaps of files. People have to go through these files, especially when doing a search. I think it is shameful that 45 years after Independence and after adopting technologies, we still have the Ministry of Lands in Kenya keeping land records manually. I think it is deplorable and should not be allowed to continue. Something should be done. The Minister has hampered the issue of revenue collection. He said that they have been collecting Kshs6 billion annually for the last six years. That is well and good. However, I think they could have collected much more if these records were well kept. I know the majority of land owners are unable to pay land rates simply because they are not built and it takes enormous time to get the records. Therefore, I think the Minister should move very fast. In fact, computerization and putting records in a manner that they should be, ought to have been done yesterday. His predecessors have told this House--- I would like to prove this by showing the HANSARD. Previous Ministers have stood on the Floor of this House and explained that the Ministry was computerizing. Therefore, at this time, we can only expect the Minister to be telling us that he is about to complete this process and not to lament that he is unable to do computerization."
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