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    "id": 1500036,
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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": "The security papers can only become title deeds after they are handed over to the Ministry, and then filled with the spatial and non-spatial information, signed by the registrar and sealed with the respective registry seals after all the processes have been followed. That is what you call a title deed. The press Gazette Notice, in a way, described them as title deeds. It was necessary for us to go back to the press as the owners of the material and the custodians of title deeds so that people can understand there is no title that is lost. Of course, there was an intention by the people who were looking for these papers. That will be then answered in question (b). I wish to respond to question (b) as follows- The Ministry has enhanced its mechanism for fighting land fraud and working closely with security and investigative agencies to defeat the mechanisms that cartels and corrupt officials have traditionally used to commit land fraud. Those anti-corruption efforts will be applied to ensure that none of the documents that have been reported as stolen becomes a threat to land ownership. Every state department, working with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is required to provide their strategies to the Government of what you are doing to reduce corruption. There are strategies, including ensuring that only people who need service come to your office or the Ministry and ensuring that your materials are serialized. We have, therefore, ensured that the materials for title deeds are serialized. This problem has been there before. The land registrar by dint of Section 79 of the Land Act may rectify it. Assuming any of those documents land somewhere and have become like a title, we can direct rectification of the register and documents where the document in question has been obtained by fraud. The Gazette Notice No.12436 by the Government Press contained serial numbers of lost security documents, notifying and warning the public of the documents in question. Our registrars are also on the lookout for this. The serial numbers are known by the public and they are with our officers. If any registrar issues a title deed, then they will take personal responsibility because they do not just do a title. Every registrar receives title deeds by record, numbers and serial numbers. I do not want to give too much of our security features. However, our titles deeds have security features specific to county and registry because you may have two or three registries in a county. On question (c), the loss of security deed papers occurred in the custody of the Government Press because they are our printers. As stated earlier, the Ministry is working closely with security and investigative agencies to identify individuals responsible for the identified lapses that resulted in the loss of land and title documents, and take necessary legal action. I confirm that the matter was reported to the Central Police Station and investigations are ongoing currently. One suspect was arraigned in court because he works with other people. The investigation is still ongoing. We believe the police are doing their work. There was quick action, including arrest of one person. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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