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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Alice Wahome",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, with great respect, the Senate is asking me to do the work of the NLC, which I will not pretend, neither will I confirm that I am able to do. The NLC is an established body under our Constitution. If you look at the questions you are asking, I should be in a position to take responsibility of the information that I bring to this Plenary. Therefore, if you ask me to provide all parcels that have been compulsorily acquired by the Government agencies since 2013. You are also asking me to bring information that has been processed by an agency that is not under me. It has nothing to do with land. My mandate is not about compulsory acquisition. The Senate is in a position to summon the NLC. It does not have to be in the Plenary. We have a Committee that they can appear before. It is not that I am unable to do my job. I am honest in saying that it is not my mandate and the officers are not accountable to me. My department is a fourth arm of Government established with specific mandate from the Constitution, answering to Parliament directly. So, I may ask them for information and bring it to you. However, if you want to interrogate that information, I will not take responsibility because it is not work within my office. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I plead to be understood in this regard. Hon. Sen. Mungatana is requesting me to indicate whether there are any tensions. He is referring to previous tensions. Sometimes Government agencies have tensions. The public and I are also aware that sometimes the Senate and the National Assembly have their own tensions. Mr. Speaker, Sir, currently, there are no tensions. We are not suffering from that issue. I do not want to say that we have that. It is not that I cannot get this information. I have written to them requesting for it. However, I knew that the right way is to request this House to get the information from the constitutionally mandated body that you can hold accountable, interrogate their list and compensation. I do not handle their compensation at any time. I beg to be released from that request because it is not my responsibility. On the last question by Sen. Onyonka on whether I am defeated, I believe I have answered that. All the questions relate to why I am not bringing this information. If I bring this information, I should be able to own and take responsibility. I will not because it is not work within my Ministry."
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