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    "id": 266325,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/266325/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
    },
    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill here proposes a number of offices, or a number of people to be hired as officers, Land Registrars and so on. It is my wish that anybody who might have been involved in corruption, particularly dealing with land, should not be hired as a lands officer again in this new dispensation in the Ministry of Lands. Otherwise, there is no point for us, Kenyans, coming up with new laws, if we will have the same people who have caused us problems. In fact, if anything, they belong to jail. Look at the case of Syokimau, a Minister insisted that those title deeds were not genuine. If so, someone somewhere printed them. Is this Government incapable of finding out who printed those fake certificates? I know the Government is capable of doing adequate investigations to find out who really did this. I have heard of only two cases that have been taken to court regarding Syokimau. However, there are several parcels of land with multiple title deeds. Who gave title deeds to those people whose houses were demolished in Syokimau? The Government should do proper investigation, so that those people are taken to court. They have caused Kenyans a lot of suffering. I like the clauses dealing with boundaries here. In Muhoroni, there have been cases where widows and orphans have lost land to rich people. They actually go and start stealing someone’s land. You complain, they tell you to go to court. If you go to court, you find that they have really done a good job in the courts. You go there and lose the case. You come to the Lands Office and you find that all the papers have been turned upside down. Your name is nowhere and yet that land was yours. So, I hope that with this Bill such people will get the highest punishment for interfering and encroaching on boundaries."
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