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    "id": 1401851,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to move that the National Land Commission (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No. 43 of 2023), be now read a Second Time. This Bill seeks to amend the National Land Commission Act No. 5 of 2012 to confer back to the NLC the power to continue reviewing all grants or dispositions of public land to establish their propriety or legality since Section 14 of the Act has lapsed. The Bill further seeks to allow the NLC to continue admitting and processing historical land injustice claims since the Act provides that a historical land claim may only be admitted, registered, and processed by the NCL, if it is brought within five years from the date of the commencement of the Act. In 2010, when we were establishing the new Constitution, many people voted because many historical land injustices were going to be tackled by this law. Before the 2010 Constitution, many commissions, such as the Ndung'u Commission and many others, investigated the issues bedevilling land in this country. It was established that there were many historical land injustices in the Coast Region, in the Rift Valley, in Central Kenya, and across the country. The conclusion was that we needed an institution that would handle those historical land injustices in the country. Therefore, the NLC was born and mandated under Article 67 to interrogate, establish, and tackle land issues. This would give people a reprieve. However, the National Lands Commission Act came in and limited the constitutional operations by putting a time limit and yet, the Constitution did not put a time limit. A statute of this House, under the National Lands Commission Bill, was prepared, and a time limit was placed on the handling of historical land injustices and the review of grants. A court in this country ruled that this Section was unconstitutional. Today, we have an opportunity to right that wrong."
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