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"content": "This Vision promoted sustainable land use and management practices that are crucial to natural development. I wish I can be allowed to bring an amendment in the near future when we get to the Committee Stage. We are talking about private entities that are bringing development projects within a certain part of a county and they are supposed to surrender a certain percentage of that land to the Government. Before the approval, they are supposed to register that land and that title deed is given to the county government. Let us do it in reverse. When the Government comes to build a road or a dam, they take private land and use it to do government projects and yet, they do not compensate those people in the first instance. I believe we should also do it here within this amendment that before the Government takes any private land, they must compensate for it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I speak here, the national Government owes the people of Gatundu North and Kamenu over Kshs1.3 billion in compensation. The Government of Kenya through the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) owe the people of Gitaru, Kabete and Wangige, hundreds of millions of shillings from the land they took when they were building a bypass. So, what is good for them should be good for us. If a private developer is giving you that land instantly and you get a title instantly, you should as well compensate them instantly whenever you take their land. This Bill is enhancing land management, streamlining registration processes, simplifying processes and reducing bureaucracy. As we do this, I wish to urge the new Cabinet Secretary who will be taking over this docket to think about technology in doing so and block chains. This is the third time I am bringing the issue of block chains here. When block-chains are mentioned, many people think about cryptocurrency or world coins, but think of block-chains as a technology that will enhance the registration processes. If I was to explain in layman’s language, block-chains would bring transparency, automation, decentralization and accessibility. A block-chain is like going to the supermarket today and you do shopping worth whatever amount and the cashier gives you a receipt, before you leave the supermarket, that receipt is sent to your wife, children and everybody in the village. So, by the time you leave the supermarket, everyone knows what you have bought. A block-chain is exactly that. In Kenya, we used it without knowing. During the elections of 2022, we used block-chains though manually and without knowing. It was Form 34A. When the Presidential vote was counted, it was taped on the door of every polling station and everyone took a photo. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you could not manufacture any other number because everyone had taken a picture, it was put in the system and downloaded. For you to manufacture a new Form 34A, you needed to collect all of them from Kenya, but you could not do that. That is block-chain. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you were to introduce a block-chain to the land registration processes, it would be very transparent. Right now, I would be able to know how many acres you own. Would you be worried because you bought it well and through the right channels? We would want to know how many pieces of land, plots or acreage the county governments of Kiambu, Nyamira, Meru, Taita Taveta or even Kakamega own. After we pass this legislation, we should come up with that other law that will enhance this transparency because it is long overdue. 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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