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    "content": "Hon. Lessonet asked which Government issued the title deeds. I want to say it here that we are actually dealing with the mess that was created, particularly by the previous regime. At one time, what you can call “decency and order” was thrown to the wind in as far as land was concerned. A disease settled in our country. You can call it a disease of land grabbing or “land grabbiosis”. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in our urban areas and rural areas, land was being taken and issued to people left, right and centre, without following any kind of procedures. That is why we have a situation where portions of forest, which are basically water towers, were excised by the Government of the day and used for human settlement, when we have large chunks of land in other parts of the country, which could have been used to settle these people. So, I do not know what exactly went wrong. I do not want to apologise for that regime. Those who were there know themselves. I want them to know that we are correcting the mess that they created in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, here, in town, you will find that school playgrounds were grabbed. You will find people constructing buildings on top of rivers. In some places, people are farming up to the river beds. We have a problem in trying to restore the Nairobi Dam, because people grabbed land up to the riparian areas of the dam. People just used to walk around and look for empty pieces of land. Once one identified a piece of land, one would go to the Lands Office and have a Deed Plan prepared. His Excellency the President would be approached and a letter of allotment would be quickly drafted and signed. That is the cause of the problem we are trying to solve today. Where is Mau? I do not know whether the hon. Member wanted to know the longitudes and the latitudes."
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