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    "id": 263857,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while still talking about the functions, what is being stated and enumerated is that the National Land Commission is like an estate agent, if I can put it in those words. The landlord, the owner of public land as stipulated in the Constitution is either the county government which holds it and has land vested on it for the benefit of the people resident in the county. Literally speaking, they are the landlords as it were, but on terms and conditions. The Commission under delegated constitutional mandate is the one to manage that public land. It would please many of our colleagues here to know that if you look at the categories of land that shall vest in the county governments, there are quite a number. For purposes of giving a clearer picture of the responsibility of the National Land Commission in relation to the counties and the land that they may possibly administer, I would want to look at Article 62(1) of the Constitution which vests the following categories of land under the county government. One, land which at the effective date was alienated Government land as defined by an Act of Parliament in force of the effective date. The law that is in force at the moment is the Government Lands Act and it clearly stipulates what the Commissioner or the President can give out. It cannot give an alienated Government land."
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