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    "content": "held in trust by the National Land Commission on behalf of county governments. However, county governments have a say in how community land will be administered on behalf of the people. This Bill is brief. I think that Senators have had an opportunity to look at it. It empowers the NLC to adjudicate throughout Kenya all former trust lands which is now community land, pursuant to its provisions in Article 67(2) of the Constitution. I hope that the problems that have been there between the NLC and the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development will cease. One area which would have been very controversial is community land in terms of the relationship between those two institutions. The Bill creates customary rights, including rights of occupancy, grazing and user, unlike other Bills such as the current Land Act under which you can only have ownership right; community land can be owned differently. It can be owned by just having access to graze and using it. The Bill also talks about how land will be registered in the name of communities and how it will be used. It provides for the setting aside of common areas for grazing. It also provides that people may even fence part of community land for purposes of fencing their homesteads or areas that belong to a particular family within the community. In a nutshell, that is what this Bill does. Lastly, the Bill creates a new register called the register of community lands in the Lands Registry. There will be a registrar of community lands. We have had trust lands before but there was no register of community land. So, this registry will help in making sure that national wealth which is in trust land, now called community land, is protected for the sake of communities. You cannot have individual ownership. It is owned by communities. However, as I have said, you could have user rights which are individual, including rights to fence certain parts for purposes of grazing, watering animals or securing homesteads. Madam Temporary Speaker, without much ado, I beg to move. I request Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo to second."
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