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    "id": 1490165,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1490165/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "I am proposing that the Land Control Act (Cap.302 of 1967) be repealed and replaced by this Bill. As I conclude, I know there has been a lot of interest in this Bill. There has been a lot of delay. I am aware that the Ministry had proposed Land Law (Amendment) Bill which spoke to the provisions I have here, but it was again entrenching Government bureaucracy in the Land Control Boards instead of opening up and professionalising the same. I want to urge my colleagues to pass this Bill. It is going to revolutionise, operationalise and bring sanity in the Land Control Boards, including transactions in the rural areas. We have been treated to too many cases of people being disinherited, including widows losing their property and children losing their inheritance simply because there has been no procedural way of approving those transactions. The Cabinet Secretary can as well declare any area as a controlled transaction area and bring it to the ambit of this particular Bill. If the Cabinet Secretary finds out that a certain zone for agricultural area is not required to be under this Bill, he can as well gazette to exempt the same. The most important thing is to professionalise the Land Control Boards to make them open and transparent. There should be no secret in land transactions. We are still grappling with the issue of minimum and maximum land sizes that was proposed in the Constitution. We have been unable to get a workable formula to implement the same."
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