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    "id": 1412256,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": "mischief. I support the deletion of this clause so that issues of historical injustice or review of grants or disposition of public land are continuous and permanent power vested in the NLC. As we undertake all these things, I want to point out that we need to be very careful. When you deal with land, there is very serious potential to disrupt the good commercial order of society. You can see the case of Zimbabwe, where the food basket has become a basket case by, again, issues of land. There are also very serious complications. When you are dealing with historical issues in Africa you need to remember, like in the case of Kenya, that the first formal registration of land was in 1905 and this law talks about 1895. So where do you start and where do you get the materials? The communal land ownership in Kenya was very fluid. There were no common boundaries. We used to have what was called usufructuary rights. You used land, then you moved on when you got tired of it. To make matters even worse, the coastal strip had a different legal system. We had the Sultan of Oman exercising domain at the coast and establishing land. That is why we have the Mazrui Land Act and all those other issues. I would ask that as we support, let us have an open mind and we make those amendments as I have suggested. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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