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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, without having to repeat what I said during the second reading of the National Land Commission Bill and the Land Registration Bill- -- Indeed, what I said during the National Land Commission Bill should be taken as part of the record in this debate about the reforms in the land sector. It will be mere repetition in the records of this House if I went through that process while examining the history of land, and the development of legislation relating to land since the turn of the last century. The challenges that have confronted the issues relating to land during the colonial period, the past injustices are all in the records. So, it would be repetition to say the same things. I said them because I seized the first opportunity during the Second Reading of the National Land Commission Bill. Whereas if in the order of things the Land Bill would have come first, that would have been the time when I should have made the statements that I made in relation to the National Land Commission Bill. We are in a rather advantageous position because as we look at the Land Bill, which should be taken to be the substantive Bill or the substantive law in relation to land, we have the Sessional Paper No.3 of 2009 on National Land Policy. As you know, under Article 67 of the Constitution, the National Land Policy has been enthroned on a constitutional pedestal, because it is required that there will be a National Land Policy that would inform reform and legislation in the land sector and the management of public land. That national land policy should be reviewed from time to time. So, if you are looking at this Bill, I think the starting point is not so much what is now being said out there in the public but so much Sessional Paper No.3 of 2009 on National Land Policy, which was approved by the Cabinet and by this National Assembly. We should carry out what we call a political or legislative audit of this Land Bill vis-à-vis the National Land Policy."
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