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    "id": 1459280,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1459280/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for your guidance. You are also a person we look up to since you are also serving your third term. If my calculations are right, you started serving in 2013, when I was a student. You are in that category of people who keep serving this nation. The purpose and intent of this Bill, as has been elucidated by the Senate Majority Leader, is to ensure that all our public land is registered in the name of the institutions upon which this public land has been granted. As the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources, I see the importance of this Bill once it is processed and passed by this House because 60 or 70 per cent of all the Petitions or Statements that are solved by members of this Senate from members of the public always have a question on an intent of grabbed land or public utility. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this morning, we were dealing with the issue of Siany Wetland in Nyamira County, where some people have made an intention of grabbing it. If a public utility has been given ownership documents to land, it will bring a cure to the perpetual grabbing of public land. The way public utilities are wired makes sure the leadership keeps changing. Today, the head teacher of a certain primary school will be head teacher of another. The board of management of a certain hospital will not be there tomorrow. The Governor of this county will not be there after one or two terms. The leadership of facilities that hold public utilities keeps changing. If there is no proper documentation on the land that they own, it then breeds root to grabbing of this particular land. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is the case for Magomano Primary School that we are doing a petition for. Initially, the first mutation of the maps that we have had 28 acres. However, somebody else has produced ownership documents and has left the primary school with 14 acres. We are almost resigning to fate because the primary school does not have documents while the private person has the documents. After the National Land Commission (NLC) has granted you land then, the second process and matter that should follow is processing the documentation of that particular utility. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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