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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to thank the Chairman of the Committee for the answer. You note from the outset that the answer from the Minister ends by saying that the Ministry through the National Land Commission is going to review the allocation of the said parcels of land and if found that they had been reserved for water reservoirs which is a public utility, titles will be revoked. This is an extremely important issue because as you know, we are now dealing with issues of land “grabbed” in the 1990s. As Mr. Speaker knows very well, or like every hon. Senator knows, if you wanted to develop an estate in the 1990s, it was a condition that you would surrender a portion of that land for public utility. Loresho was planned in the 1970s and that was the sane condition. The question that needs to be answered if we are going to do away with land grabbing is; if the developer surrendered his land for public utility and if at any point the public need ceased, then logically that land should revert to the developer and not a third party. Mitema Holdings of P.O. Box 1771 Kisumu, Maywood of P.O. Box 1771 Kisumu and Novac Construction of P.O. Box 1771 Kisumu is the same person who got granted public land and a letter of allotment and then sold it for Kshs3 million each. He made a total of Kshs9 million. In the meantime, public land has been given away. First and foremost, I live in Loresho and he has said that from available records, no building plans have been approved by this office to warrant the purported development. On what account is the developer then fencing and continuing to develop The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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