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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "living on land that has no boundaries. Hence, if you end up with malicious people, there are always claims and counterclaims of particular parcels of land. I support this registration and I come back to the aspect of physical planning. When you go around our urban centres and particularly residential areas, I keep on wondering what the planning units are doing to our people. You go to residential areas and all you see are houses without necessary public utilities. The Physical Planning Act talks about a percentage of open space that should be availed to people who live there. How then does the county government end up approving plans of residential areas without the adequate playing grounds? Do we even stop to worry about how our children as they grow up in the residential areas, spend their free time? It is the main reason why most children spend three quarters of their time watching television. I am not saying watching television is wrong, but as children grow up, they must acquire social skills. As a country, we must ensure that our children in residential areas have open spaces where they can play. Some of the anti-social characteristics that our children are having is because they have no space to play. Children grow up confined to houses and fixed spaces. We are creating health problems in children. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale would accept that, children need to move and interact with their peers. In the traditional estates we have even in the city, we had open spaces where children would play football, netball and all the games we have. Nonetheless, all of a sudden, we are seeing residential places where the only space that is available other than the house is a parking space. You will find when you are going to visit friends and as you enter the houses, children are all lined up and squeezed on some small space by the gate. Other than that space, cars are parked or blocking the entrance of the gates and all the entrances. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if planning was done well in this country, it must take note that there are public facilities that must be provided. The reason I relate to the Land (Amendment) Bill that we have here is that planning is done on land and space. Whenever people are constructing houses, it is a requirement that you must get a copy of your title. All these must be aspects of land that should concern us, as Kenyans. I also need to talk about the issue of digitization of titles. It is amazing that in the last so many years, the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development keeps on talking about the achievement only in some two or three counties. Their reports are only showing Nairobi, Murang’a and Kiambu. These three counties cannot be the only counties that the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing, and Urban Development keeps on referring to when they are talking about the digitization of titles. I believe that the non-completion of the digitization of titles is by design. There are people in this country who continue to benefit from the manual handling of title deeds. Why should Kenyans have their titles rotting in some registry? I want to challenge this House to pilot registries in this country. Let us visit Ruaraka, the Survey Department of Kenya, and you will see the miserable situation in which our titles are in dusty rooms and those are the prime properties or documents that Kenyans have. 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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