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    "id": 1457794,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "constructing public utility facilities. We are privileged to have a new road in Nyamira County that runs from Chebilat through the Ikonge market all the way to Chabera. The surprising thing is that every time I am at home, residents of the three wards- Mawawa, Okera, and Kiabonyoru complain that to date the chairman of NLC has not given them compensation. They surrendered their title deeds and we now have a beautiful road, but compensation has not happened. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of the problems arise in areas where there has been succession and the families do not have title deeds in the name of the beneficiaries. The idea of ensuring that everybody who benefits from a piece of land gets a title deed becomes useful when you want to get compensation from the government when it is acquiring land for public service utility. I also want to bring to the attention of the NLC that many Kenyans are suffering. Even if you are a Member of Parliament (MP) and you apply to charge your title and you have not done conversion--- There is something they are calling conversion. They want to make every transaction appear under the National Electronic Licensing System (NELS). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you want to do any transaction, mortgage your land, get a loan from the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) or from a commercial bank, it is troublesome to do a conversion from the current title to the new titles. I always wonder whether as a country we are ever sensitive to the people who come from our rural areas. If you tell a Maasai from Kajiado County that they should do a conversion of their titles, they might wonder because they know that the title they have been keeping in their wardrobe or cupboard is the evidence that the land is theirs. How do you tell these persons who have not handled a smartphone nor have computers in their homes that in order to sell their land, they must go and do conversion? At times we are very insensitive to the people we represent. In London, the level of literacy is at another level. Everybody has a smartphone and access to a computer. You then want to import that to Kenya and state that everybody should be under that system. I know there are many Kenyans who are suffering because they have not been able to do that conversion. As a lawyer, I have met many Kenyans who cry when they go to court, and are informed that they cannot make their filings because they need to do an e-filing. I am sure there are many members of the Nchuri Ncheke who will not be able to do an e-filing. All they know is that they are supposed to prepare their papers and go the land registry at Meru High Court. That is the same thing in Nyamira County. When they go to court, they know they have prepared their court papers and they should file them. Believe me, in many registries, if not all, Kenyans are being turned away. They are being told to go and do E-filing. What makes it even worse is during a court hearing, they are also told to log in. Surely speaking, somebody from my village Girigiri, Nyabasi Ward in Nyamira County has no smartphone or laptop in their homes. You are telling them to travel all the way to Nyamira to look for a cyber cafe and log in. It is good to embrace technology, however, 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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