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    "id": 1398801,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was nearly becoming anxious because I have not had an opportunity to meet the Cabinet Secretary before she became the Cabinet Secretary. The last time I was with her, she was making a political commentary on the television. She told me that they will win and we will lose, but I told her that they will lose and we will win. Then, she told me that, in fact, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his friends and everybody will go. I am now shocked that the other side is now telling Mama Ngina “sorry”. I was excited to see her because I have utmost respect for her. Madam Cabinet Secretary, I also want to sincerely thank you for confirming Mr. Nyandoro. He happens to come from where he does, but I am happy that you looked at meritocracy and agreed to give the best qualified person the job. I really thank you for that. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the supplementary question I am asking the Cabinet Secretary maybe suggestive. Would the Cabinet Secretary be comfortable to confirm to this House that the issues that are bedeviling the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development and the land question in this country are very simple things? For example, we have no spatial planning which is completed, we do not know which parcels of land were allocated and who allocated them and whether they suffice on the legality of their existence. Also, the issues that are in Kitale right now about prison’s land are questions which are historical. The challenge that we have is that the institutions which are supposed to function and, indeed, one of those institutions is her Ministry, have been unable to perform and deliver on the issue of land. Would the Cabinet Secretary be comfortable to tell this House whether, therefore, it is possible to make sure that in the shortest time possible, we have spatial planning, so that we can do what the Rwanda Government has done? What is shocking or may not be shocking is that the people who did the spatial planning for Rwanda are Kenyans, and they are known. Is it possible that we can also do that, so that when somebody is buying land or has been allocated land or is having a problem with their land, they can immediately have the detail, the size of the land, the location of the land, the value of the land and any development on that land? Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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