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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kivuti",
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        "legal_name": "Lenny Maxwell Kivuti",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the Motion. I also thank Dr. Otichillo for bringing this matter up. When we talk of geo-spatial information, we are literally talking about land information. Land information system in Kenya is what would solve a myriad of problems in this country. We have 24 laws relating to land in this country and they are not all coherent. In those laws, land is controlled in different ways. It is only through the establishment of a proper Geographic Information System (GIS) that we can harness all the tenets of the five dimensions of geo-spatial management in this country. We can actually do big business in geo-spatial information. How? If you look at the tax regime in Kenya, a big percentage like 30 per cent is collected by local authorities compared to what is collected from all the other businesses that are actually geo-spatial. All the taxes are geo-spatial related and the local authorities only collect about 30 per cent. We can use the GIS to collect taxes for the central Government and the local authorities. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Lands could be a controller. This is because when setting up this system, if we do not include the public private partnership (PPP), the system may not work. Why? To control a GIS requires a lot of integrity, and that is what has been lacking in the lands offices. When you bring in the private sector, you will have the players who bring in the data, which is now locked up in wherever place. We will then let the Government be the regulator. I wish we could have this system in place, at least, in the next six months. If we do it the PPP way, the Government will not need to spend any money to establish the system. The infrastructure for this system is already in place in the Ministry of Information and Communications. We have already confirmed that with the Minister. With those many remarks, I support."
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