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    "id": 479919,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwiru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alex Muthengi Mburi Mwiru",
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    "content": "Indeed, due diligence must be done and when you say you are going to revoke the titles and yet you know precisely it is only this Parliament that has got the power even to amend the law to make her revoke--- It is the National Land Commission (NLC) that is supposed to do that job. So, it is sleeping on its job so to say. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so, what I want to say, and we must be level- headed in dealing with this particular matter - is that there is no law, human thinking or magnanimity in someone picking 54,000 acres in an area where we know squatters are suffering. It is not necessary at all. So, therefore, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what I can recommend - and the matter has already been seized by my Committee - is that we are going deep into the matter, including naming those people who are behind those particular companies. We will not only name those particular individuals in those companies, but we are also going further to say that if nothing more has been done, we can do more as a Committee and as a Parliament to make sure that even those other areas like Uasin-Gishu, Nakuru, Mombasa, Kwale and such kind of areas that we are able to see that land is managed properly the way it is supposed to be managed by the law. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what we are talking about right now is a matter that can bring some clashes in that particular county and we have to stop it as leaders of this country. We have to make sure that we handle it soberly and within the particular precincts of the law. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, already, my Committee has realized the kind of lacuna that is within the land statutes that are governing the country today. That includes the Land Law, the Land Registration Act and the National Land Commission Act. We have already set things in motion and engaged the gear to make sure that, if need be, amendments are done and brought to this particular House for the purposes of sprucing up or aligning everything else for the purposes of smooth running. We cannot afford to see agencies exchanging bad words and statements."
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