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"speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
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"content": "The other category of land which now will fall in the hands of the county governments is land transferred to the State by way of sale, reversion or surrender. Those of my colleagues who come from, for example, the tea growing areas in Kericho, if there was a sale to the State or a reversion or a surrender to the State, of let us say, one of those tea estates, automatically by dint of the Constitution, that category of land will fall under the land vested in the county governments. The other category is land in respect of which no individual or community ownership can be established by any legal process. Sometimes we think that it is hard to come by that category of land, but sometimes it arises when suddenly you find there was a settler who came here, he did not organize his affairs well and the title expires and if we were going by current practice, that land would revert back to the Commissioner of Lands. But now under the Constitution, that surrender, reversion or sale will go to the county governments. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other category is land in respect of which no heir can be identified by any legal process. That is land which shall be in the hands of the county governments. Then there is land that is lawfully held or used by any State organ except any such land that is occupied by State organ as lessee under a private lease. The Constitution spells out under what circumstances that category of land will revert back to the county governments. So, you can see we are having a starting point in history where large chunks of land which fell in the domain of the National Government will now be vested in the counties."
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