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    "id": 318808,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 57,
        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
        "slug": "josephat-nanok"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am rising to answer a supplementary question which the Minister had answered twice previously. He was asked to come back owing to the fact that he had informed this House that there were consultations going on between my Ministry, the Ministry of Lands and the Ministry of Transport to discuss issues and agree on where the particular southern by-pass is going to pass through within the borders of Nairobi National Park. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, between the 9th and 24th of August, a technical team of the relevant Ministries, which I have just mentioned, held a series of meeting, reviewed the literature that has been available since 1957 and had this to report. This is the position of the Ministry, and also the position of the Government. Indeed, sometime in 1957, a deed plan indicated that a title deed existed for the Nairobi National Park. Indeed, this deed plan indicated that a railway reserve was created along the Northern Corridor of the Nairobi National Park in that same year. Within the same year, the Royal National Park was transferred to the East African Railways. The land that was under the Royal National Park was transferred to East African Railways and Harbors Corporation for the purposes of marshalling a yard and a railway corridor. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the technical team noted that this particular area that had been reserved for the railway reserve has been encroached on by buildings. In regard to the Wilson Airport, the team also obtained a deed for this airport which reflected the presence of an airstrip, a strip of land between the end of the runway and the national park. This strip approximately coincides with the position of railway reserve created in 1957. The technical team recommended the following:- 1. the repossession of the railway reserve that was existing; 2. in regard to creation of the road reserve, they established that no legally valid road reserve for a highway has ever existed between the Ole Sereni area and area south- west of the Wilson Airport Runway 1432. The team thus recommended that a 60 meter road reserve be created alongside the park boundary except where aviation, or engineering considerations, make departure from the boundary unavoidable. They went further and made recommendations as to the extent of intrusion into Nairobi National Park. The extent of possible intrusion into the park needs to be minimized. It was noted that the extent of intrusion is dependent on several factors including the following:-"
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