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    "id": 58775,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/58775/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": " First of all, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want Member of Parliament to have an understanding that the general framework of the Government Land Act which is found in many other legislations. For example, if you look at the Kenya Railways Act, Kenya Airports and Authority Act. The basis of legal framework is that if any institution is given public land, including private individuals, if you have nothing to do with it, and in particular, if you are given for any specific purpose, the law would require you to return back to the public. I can cite sections of the law, for example, a lot of land belonging to Kenya Railways was being sold right, left and centre. I agreed with the Minister for Transport that if he read the Government Lands Act together with the Kenya Railways Act, you will find provisions that once a public institution or an individual is given a public land for a specific purpose, you cannot then decide to say that: I will now want to subdivide it to give to other persons. That will take care of what the hon. Member for Limuru raised. For example, in Vet Lab, the administration there decided that they can write letters of no objection that so-and-so, you can have two acres, so-and-so you have three acres, and yet land was given to that institution for a specific purpose, and then they begin to sell it. On that basis, you cannot build the kind of institutions that we want to build."
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