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    "id": 58748,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/58748/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, with the emergence of the new Constitution and the National Land Policy, the Ministry has continued with the process of revocation of titles for illegally acquired land. The revocation is undertaken through a legally informed process. The titles for land which are lawfully acquired are not protected by the Constitution within the meaning of Article 40(6) which inter alia provides that rights under this Article do not extend to any property that has been found to have been unlawfully acquired. Article 40 guarantees sanctity of titles but deny any form of private ownership to land that is illegally acquired in order to safeguard public interest. The public through the Government owns lands which are categorized as public land. The rights of the public cannot be subordinate or secondary to purported interest in public land which is acquired unlawfully or fraudulently. In effect, what the Constitution does is that the interest of the Kenyan people in public land or land acquired by the State has similar if not superior or overriding protection against unlawful or fraudulent acquisition of such land."
}