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    "content": "economic, social and political status of Kenyans. It has to be treated very carefully because it determines whether a nation succeeds or flops. When we narrow into community land, if you give a proper legal framework as this Bill intends to do, then all those injustices which occurred due to mismanagement of land issues will be sorted out. We have had cases where community land is taken away by private developers and institutions or certain greedy individuals. We have seen how Kenyans have suffered because of these injustices. We saw the Syokimau incident where people built houses using all their money. Some individuals had grabbed the land which belonged to a community and sold it to unsuspecting buyers. Generally, lack of proper guidance within the land factor brought all these problems. We have even seen many nomadic communities thinking that they own a ranch and before you know it, an individual has acquired it. So, all those communal things that would bring cohesion within the region suffer. They end up being unable to do some traditional or customary functions that were ordinarily done on certain land. If it is communal cultivation, then the food that is produced is not sufficient because someone has converted the land ownership illegally or unfairly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, although the Constitution defines what community land is in Article 63(2), there are some people who still abuse this provision. The Bill properly gives the identification, registration and management of community land. This is very important as it brings sanity within the land sector and ensures that people do not act arbitrarily, corruption is curbed and there is fairness so that people live in cohesion and improve their income. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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