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    "id": 28244,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support. The establishment of this court is likely going to make a lot of influence as far as addressing the problem of backlog of cases in the High Court is concerned. This is basically because much of the litigation already pending in our High Court and subordinate courts touches one way or the other on land. The creation of a specialized court to deal with land cases will also create a readily available approach to resolving the various disputes. The other most important and very welcome aspect of this Bill relates to the already existing land policy. The court being part of the process of enforcing this land policy will also help this country in a most dramatic way in terms of addressing what have been historically outstanding challenges within our land system. The situation we have in Kiambu, for instance, where most of the disputes emanating from that place relate to land, will not arise again. Brothers, sisters and so on keep on fighting over meaningless small pieces of land. You will find that most murder cases in Kiambu are traceable to land. The same happens in Meru, Kisii, Kakamega, among other parts of the country. This law will have a fundamental impact as far as administration of justice is concerned. The former Public Land Tribunal Act was clearly a disaster. There was really nothing that could be said to have emanated from that procedure where we were using lay persons. Modern land law is essentially available or accessible only within the formal educational mechanism system. We need to be quite careful when we also talk about utilizing traditional dispute resolution mechanisms. This is because that will tend to rekindle what we have used through the Land Disputes Tribunal, and there has certainly been a disaster. A lot of corruption goes on. Influence peddling takes place and all there is justice for sale. I hope, therefore, that the court system which will be created to address land problems will be able to create a reservoir of capacity to address these land issues, and will make this readily available and useable across the country."
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