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    "id": 549244,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 242,
        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to start by thanking the Chairman and his Committee because when they started to interrogate this issue further, they invited the Senator for Nairobi County and I to the Committee to participate, so that we could understand what was happening. I want to thank them for that and for the report. The reason we had this further meeting was because the then Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Housing and Urban Development in her answer said “the Ministry, through the National Land Commission (NLC) is going to review the allocation of the said parcels of land. If it is found that the land has been reserved for a water reservoir which is a public utility the title deeds will be revoked. That is the bottom line and the most important finding. The subsequent meeting which we had, like the Chairman has reported, in the further clarification, found that this is a public utility land and that the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development would write to the NLC to have the title deeds revoked. I note that in the resolution of the Committee, it says that “the NLC provides the Committee with a summary of preliminary findings on the determination of review of grant and disposition of the titles on the above stated parcels of land by end of business on 12th March, 2015. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have given that background because in the various findings that were made, one of them by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development was that after he said the land was a public utility land and it should be restricted to the public, he would confirm if the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development had formerly written to the NLC to request the commission to revoke the same parcel of land and committed to ensure the said letter was written. The NLC said that from preliminary investigations, it was evident that the parcel of land was public land reserved for the development of a water reservoir and the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) confirmed that it had not approved any development on the said parcel of land, although development was going on. The question all these raises is: Since the Committee was supposed to be reported back to by the NLC on 12th March, 2015, has that report been made to the Committee on or before that date and can we now rest assured that the land in question has been restituted to the public, that the title deed has been cancelled in favour of the person who took it from the public and that the land is finally the property of the Nairobi City County as trustees for the citizens of Nairobi for a water reservoir? That is the first clarification I would like to have from the Chairman because that is the issue that I am trying to follow up, so that the structures there will be demolished and finally the land becomes the property of the Republic."
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