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    "speaker_name": "Hon. B. K. Bett",
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        "legal_name": "Benard Kipkirui Bett",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Report. From the beginning, I want to say that I support it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as Members of the Departmental Committee on Lands, we realised that there was a lot of confusion in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, especially in records management. As a Committee, we could only get piecemeal access to information sought from the Ministry pertaining to land ownership. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) and the Ministry officials seemed to be struggling to provide information. In my opinion, the reason could be because of the fact that this sector has never been modernised. Retrieving information from that Ministry is a big challenge. As a country, it is time we made a deliberate effort to digitise the sector. We should increase the budgetary allocations to the Ministry to help them digitise. As a Committee, we discovered that no Member of Parliament was allocated a piece of the Karen land in question. On the ownership of the said land, it was very clear from the records that the claim by Muchanga Investments was a case of forgery. There were clear indications that all the documents they presented had some signs of serious tampering, including cancellations. This made the Committee to suspect that they were not genuine in their pursuit of the said land parcel. Hon. Speaker, as a Committee, we came to a conclusion that the EACC and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) should verify the authenticity of the documents presented to us by the CS and the other people who made submissions to us because of the confusion that emanated from the documents that we received from various people who participated in hearing. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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