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    "id": 188758,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Waititu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 147,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinand Ndung'u Waititu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Motion on Recurrent and Development expenditure for Financial Year 2008/2009. I wish to pinpoint some points. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to comment on the confusion which is there on the issuance of title deeds in the cities. In Nairobi, we had two tittle deeds issued for the same piece of land because of the confusion that is there in land laws. Some title deeds are issued directly by the Ministry of Lands and the same piece of land is given a different number by the Nairobi City Council and a letter of allotment is issued. Consequently, that person gets a title deed for the same piece of land. I wish the Minister could address that confusion in the proposed National Land Policy so that unsuspecting Kenyans cannot be conned their money. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, sometimes ago, we had some programme of slum upgrading. I am disappointed to see that the Minister has not highlighted it properly here. It happens that the bigger part of my constituency, Embakasi, is occupied by squatters in the slum areas. These people lived in slum areas for many years but they do not have documents to own land. The Ministry had indicated before that they will issue one title for the slum areas so that some people who have been going round the Ministry acquiring title deeds do not do that. I wish the Minister could address the plight of the squatters who have been handled in a bad way by some of the rich people who evict them without any notice. Those people are Kenyans even if they are poor and they have a right to stay where they are staying only that they do not have the documents. I wish the Minister will address the plight of squatters and highlight the slum upgrading programme. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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