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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I rise to support the Land (Amendment) Bill. From the outset, I would like to say that titles are a right of our people. Just like all of us have an identification card or a passport, everybody that owns some land should have a title for it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, coming to this amendment Bill, as a country, we must be cognizant of the fact that as we go urban in this country, planning must go hand in hand with the growth of urbanisation. As urban centres grow as a result of people moving to urban centres, those pieces of land on where urban centres are need to be registered by being issued with titles. If we do not plan for our urban centres, as the saying goes; failing to plan is planning to fail. We end up with urban centres with many residential areas and commercial buildings coming up in our towns yet they are not planned for. Many Kenyans supported devolution because with the coming of county governments, which are planning units of our space, they knew that counties would embark on planning activities that would ensure that our urban centres grow in an orderly way. In some of our urban centres, there is even no access to places such as estates where our people stay. Due to urban growth, access roads are getting thinner and thinner, if not inadequate. I am talking about urbanisation because it is closely related to the titles we are talking about. Urban spaces grow on land. I have said having titles is a right. Not all of us can allocate land or issue titles. There is an issuing authority and that is the Registrar of Titles. That is an office within the Ministry. If the Ministry is the one that allocates land, how then in this country do we end up with double, triple or so many allocations of titles for one piece of land? That is a real source of conflict with our people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support this amendment Bill. Public land, as given by our people, must be compensated. The issue of compensation of some of the land referred to as public is still an issue in this country. If only we are sincere with ourselves and went back to our counties, there are market centres and small towns dotted all over where our people have never been compensated, yet they are marked as public land and are used for public purposes. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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