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    "id": 558598,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kihagi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Karanja Kihagi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second the Motion and indicate that this matter has serious consequences. It is an indication of how we view one of our most priced resources; land, and the records that we keep and those are used to adjudicate any dispute arising between parties. The Committee was seized of the matter and as the Chairman has said, we went to the extent of inviting the Cabinet Secretary, the NLC and even the Director of CID over the matter. Subsequently, we had a sub-committee that looked critically at the documents that were presented by the Cabinet Secretary and also those that had come from the court, which she told us she had been served with later. We wanted to look at the documents. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is quite a pity to know that land records were kept in a very meticulous manner prior to Independence and even a few more decades after Independence. At a certain time, there came the issue of laxity in the way we keep our land records and also the issue of ethical behavour of those in our land registry in Nairobi and at the Coast. The fact that we could trace this land from the initial allocation in 1921, shows that the records are very clear up to 1978. Thereafter, we find that confusion starts emerging and it is not clear who owns this land; there are multiple claims to the land. It shows that there is decay in our moral capacity to keep these documents containing matters that affect our economy; matters that will ensure that we do not have certainty in our land transactions and our land market. For our land market to survive, for a banking sector to survive, we need to have certainty in this matter. The Chairman has alluded to the fact that the sub-committee looked critically at these documents. For Members with the Report, if you go to the fifth page from the back, you will find that there is an alleged sub-division. There is an item there indicated as Number 18. It shows an The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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