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    "id": 1402468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "The country desires to have a National Land Commission that has tooth to bite not one that cannot act when the people of Kenya are being dispossessed of their land by cartels and thugs. The cartels and thugs access power and can access the Ministry of Lands, and corruptly change public land into private hands. We can only depend on NLC to correct some of these ills. If and when the House adopts this Bill and gives NLC powers that they ought to have, they must move with speed to secure all public land, and in some instances private land. I have a case in mind: you may have seen in the news a parcel of land next to Windsor Golf Hotel, on the border of Kiambu and Nairobi County. A small group of people changed ownership of a company of very old men who bought land many years ago by influencing people at the land’s office, changed titles and transferred those titles to other people. These are matters under investigation. There is a Senior Police Officer in Nairobi who purports to be having breakfast with the Deputy President and dinner with the President. He forces police officers to guard the stolen land. You may dine with the President and have breakfast with the Deputy President or have lunch with the Leader of the Majority Party. However, you shall have no opportunity to steal land from the people of Kenya on account of the office you hold, because you can commandeer officers with guns. This is the injustice being meted out on the people of Kenya over their land. We do not have a provision in law where those who feel treated unfairly can run to NLC and have the titles revoked. You will be shocked by that particular case around Windsor Golf Hotel; that none other than the Principal Secretary in charge of lands cancelled the particular titles or instigated the cancellation of those titles. There are senior police officers who are involved, and who now use their powers in the police to guard goons taking charge of private land. The other day, none other than the Cabinet Secretary herself, Ms Alice Wahome was locked out of her property in Loresho. There are goons and policemen who think they are a power unto themselves. That particular officer knows himself, and I want to tell him from the Floor of this House that there shall be no inch of grabbed land in Nairobi or its environs on account of a few claiming to dine and wine with who is who. Public land would remain public land and private land would remain private land."
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