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    "id": 50745,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, with tremendous respect to hon. Kioni, if he was listening to me, he would have heard me say that we are preparing enabling legislation to put into effect the full import of those provisions of the Constitution that make it impossible for non-citizens to own land for periods longer than 99 years. Indeed, as a matter of clarification, under the Agriculture Act and the Land Control Act, it is not easy, even under the old constitutional order for non-citizens to acquire agricultural land. There are those provisions that restrict agricultural land falling under the possession or ownership of non-citizens. I am not saying that it has not been abused. It has been abused in the past. However, for a foreigner, even under the old order, to acquire agricultural land, such a transaction required an exemption by His Excellency the President. No Land Control Board can give consent for a transaction passing agricultural land to a non-citizen. But for what it is worth, and I think it is important, in the enabling legislation, it will be necessary for us to prepare an inventory. That is what has made it difficult for the Government to know how much land is public land. This new constitutional order will make it possible for us to handle the framework of the provisions that we have. We will have an inventory of public land so that it is not a matter of loss to the public."
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