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    "content": "itself does not help anybody. If we can get the riparian land vegetated, planted with trees and so on, then we can help the community because the water becomes cleaner and we have less diseases. In the place where I come from, Nyeri County, cancer is finishing all of us. I am convinced that part of the reason why cancer is so prevalent in those areas is because fertilizers, farm chemicals fall directly without any form of treatment into the rivers, the people then drink the water from those rivers because the riparian land is now individually owned but in law, it is there. In law, it says that riparian land is owned by the county governments but nothing is happening. We must focus a little bit more on how, once we have acquired the land as a community, how then do we implement what needs to be implemented in those communities because that, to me, is the major challenge. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second one is the issue of how we can use the private sector to also engage it in the use of community land. We know that that is a minefield. That people can start grabbing that property, but I think that we must see the advantages of having private sector capital that can be utilized to develop community land. For example, if you look at some of the areas that have got wildlife and the community itself is not able to exploit that wildlife for tourism, it is good for us to have an infrastructure where the community can invite the private sector to work with them so that the land can be of use not only to the current generation but for the future generation. All in all, it is a good Bill. We support it but let us look on the issue of land use."
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