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    "id": 451030,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/451030/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 131,
        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "As regards the Land Adjudication Act, I feel that what is proposed here is quite in order. Basically, the amendments are meant to regularize the Bill to conform to the current Constitution. Therefore, on the Land Adjudication Act, I see no serious problem and I support all the proposed amendments. On the Urban Areas and Cities Act, I have some concerns. First, these amendments are seeking to reduce the population threshold in classifying cities, towns and municipalities. Looking at the proposed thresholds, it does not appear that there is certain clear criterion that was used to come up with these thresholds. For example, it is being proposed that under Section 10(2)(a) that we reduce the threshold for a population of a town from 10,000 to 2,000. What criteria were used? My fear here is that we may end up classifying all the villages as towns and this is going to be a disaster. When you classify a village as a town, it has its own implications. So, we need to look at all this and see what criteria have informed this. So, during the Third Reading, we will need to find out what has informed all these proposals."
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