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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Let me start by congratulating the Minister and his staff for making a nice presentation to this House. Since land is central to the lives of most of us, it needs to be considered. The Minister come up with good plans, but having looked appropriately at this Ministry's budget, I am convinced that the Minister needs more money than what he has been given, in order to achieve what he has planned to do. Having said so, I want to make a few comments. One of them is on land adjudication. The land adjudication process is taking unusually too long in some parts of this country. When it takes so long, a lot of formal transactions on land cannot be effected. This impacts negatively on most of our people. In Makueni District, where I come from, there are some adjudication sections which were started over 30 years ago, like Kakutha and Kiangini adjudication sections. To date, people in these areas have not been issued with title deeds. This denies them access to credit. It is such areas which we would like the Minister to look into seriously, so that everybody can get a title deed to his land, so that he/she can access credit and engage in formal transactions involving the land. Another issue I would want to talk about is on planning. As agricultural land diminishes, in future, the temptation will be for every Kenyan to get a plot in urban centres. However, looking at our urban centres, there appear to be two planning authorities. There is the planning by the Ministry of Lands and the planning authority by the local authorities, to the extent that we find, in certain areas, one plot being claimed by two or three people. This is a cause of dispute and insecurity. In order to avoid such situations, we urge the Minister to stamp his foot down, so that local authorities' surveyors do not involve themselves in giving land which has already been professionally planned. out. I would now like to touch on management of land in the districts. We have two important units of managing land. We have the District Lands Control Boards, to which reputable wazee are appointed to transact business, where we carry out approval for land sub-division, approval for loans, transfers, et cetera . However, most of the time, the Ministry Headquarters does not provide enough funds to the Land Registrar to facilitate the meetings for these transactions to take place. There is nothing for free in this country. When those wazee go and sit in District Lands Control Boards, and they are not facilitated--- Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know what I am saying. Those wazee demand"
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