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    "id": 549239,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kivuti",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lenny Maxwell Kivuti",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to give supplementary information on the Statement on the ongoing development on Land Reference No.NRB/Block 90/599 at the junction of Loresho Ridge Road and Kaptagat Road. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on Wednesday 11th March, 2015, the Committee met with officers from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, the National Land Commission (NLC) and the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) to seek further information and clarification with regard to the Statement on the ongoing property development on the said land reference number. The Committee sought to know specifically what the Ministry and the NLC are doing in revoking the title to the parcel L.R. No.NRB/Block 90/599, since there was agreement that the land is public and it had been acquired fraudulently by a private developer. We also sought to know when the stopping of construction and any other development on the parcel of land would be done and whether the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has formerly written to the NLC to request that the Commission terminates the process of revocation of the title or determines. The Committee further sought to know if the NEMA had approved the ongoing constructions on the said parcel of land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the response from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development was that it had determined that the said parcel of land is a public utility and had been transferred to private land erroneously. In the event that, that land for public utility was no longer needed, then the institution which was the custodian of the land, was supposed to surrender it back to the entity which issued the land, in this case, the Government. They confirmed that the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development had formerly written to the NLC to request it to revoke the said title. They also explained that the physical planning process that was carried out on the parcel of land in question was done erroneously and did not get statutory approval because the process of acquisition by the developer was fraudulent. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the NLC submitted that they had received a complaint letter from the Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC) about the encroachment and also including five other parcels of land, one of which, the Loresho Plot No.596, which is part of the L.R. NRB/Block 90/599, was the subject matter of the Statement. The NLC had initiated the process of determining whether the said parcel and other parcels of land had been acquired fraudulently. The NLC had invited stakeholders and members of the public to a public hearing to establish the legality of the parcel of land. The NLC was mandated by law to hear all parties to a land dispute and determine its legality. They invited the purported owner of the L.R. No.NRB/Block 90/599 to the public hearing, but he did not attend and has been given a second chance to appear. The NLC invited stakeholders to provide documentation on the said parcel of land and from the preliminary investigations, it was evident that the said parcel of land was public land 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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