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    "id": 558629,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Today I was here sitting next to my good mentors and another of my mentors was gaining from their wisdom. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The issue of land and the records that need to be held properly and managed is well illustrated in this current case. The Report that the House is receiving, the Committee and the Sub-committee are admitting that many documents are missing that in the end, it is not so clear to have the certainty of who was guilty and who was corrupt. The House is under challenge right now. This points to the limitations of our committees, the technical expertise that we have and the other branches and agencies of the Government that we must rely on when there are serious and technical investigations. Otherwise, the efforts of the House can come to naught or do not reach the threshold for the conclusions that we want the country to have confidence in. That is one issue that I would say, that this House needs to co-operate with other Government agencies. The specialised agencies that have the technical capacity should never hesitate and must be expected to always give the House full support where it needs it. Otherwise, we end up with half- baked reports and we lose the confidence of the country. The second issue is on land and modernisation. This 11th Parliament must leave legacy as the Parliament that insisted on its representative duty of oversight authority to the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development and the National Land Commission, as well as its powers to make the Budget, ensure that there is a policy for proper and full digitization of all land records in Kenya. Then that will really help us. As this issue was being moved, taking us back almost 100 years, it was nice and beautiful, but I am not sure it was giving us the result. It was just indicating to us that our systems are still so corruptible, where you find duplicate documents existing and somebody thinks that his is as genuine as the other. That has got serious implications when our land documents are not considered valid. It is the same as if you could not tell the difference between our original, real and fake currency. On what basis will banks take and hold title deeds when they know that those titles may be fake? It is a responsibility and legacy challenge for this 11th Parliament to pass the Budget, oversee, put in place policies and make sure that these are implemented. I am happy that earlier this afternoon, the Committee on Implementation gave a Report that was discussed. One of the things that we must make sure we pass and is implemented in this Parliament, in this time that will help for many years, is that record. 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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