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    "id": 1472143,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank all the Senators who have taken time to contribute to the Land Amendment Bill (National Assembly Bills No.40 of 2022). It is quite a straightforward Bill that will secure the interests of our public institutions which have fallen prey to these land grabbers that are so vicious across the length and breadth of our Republic, but mostly targeting vulnerable public institutions for obvious reasons. Mr. Speaker, Sir, public institutions are not necessarily owned by anybody, so to speak. Therefore, on many occasions, they fall victim to these dubious characters who go and change land records and alter boundaries. Almost every public institution in this country, especially those that have big parcels of land, from technical training institutions, universities, and hospitals, have fallen prey at one time or another to these kinds of schemes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you do know for a fact that almost every university in this country is in court with one character or another, from the University of Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta University of Technology (JKUAT), Moi University, all these, especially the old universities that the previous governments had taken time to allocate sufficient land so that as the institutions grow, they can expand to become great institutions. Today, they are in court, with this or the other land grabber. Therefore, that is the importance of this Bill; to ensure that these institutions have titles in their name, so that when anybody tries to play any monkey games, they can provide evidence that the land belongs to them. I thank colleagues who have taken the time to speak to this. I hope we can conclude on this particular Bill, vote and pass it so that the President and the Ministry can go on to give these public institutions their title deeds in their name; so that nobody ever dreams of altering the ownership of land that is owned by them. With those many remarks, I beg to reply."
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