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    "id": 1503452,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to congratulate our friend, Hon. Wilberforce Oundo for this Bill. I also want to commend the Leader of the Majority Party for pushing a Private Member's Bill to a level where it sees the light of day. In Kenya, the issue of land is very pertinent. We deal with land control boards in our areas and I want to agree with the Hon. Members who have said that this has been a bed of corruption. The so-called special board sittings are always constituted in the night to transfer land. This has made many people especially very old grandfathers and grandmothers to lose their land. This Bill is welcome because it is aligning the land control boards in our areas to the representatives of the people in the constituency. This will give a Member of Parliament mandate to ensure that people do not lose their land. I read in the newspaper that somebody had used affordable housing land to borrow money from a bank. I thought this was an issue of the special board sittings where land is transferred without someone’s knowledge. This needs to be checked into. I support this Bill. There is also a big issue with the remuneration of these board members. The monies that are supposed to get to them, do not. We have many complaints. This Bill should be used to ensure that we affirm our support and get them to continue working. I support. Thank you."
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