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    "id": 596097,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "The amendments to the Land Registration Act, 2012; the Land Act, 2012 and the Environment and Land Court Act, 2011 (No.19 of 2011) are good. This Bill seeks to amend the Environment and Land Court Act to empower the Chief Justice to transfer judges of the High Court to serve in the Environment and Land Court and vice versa. The Bill further seeks to provide for appeals from subordinate courts and local tribunals to be filed within a period of 30 days from the date of the decree or appeal. The Bill also empowers the Chief Justice to appoint certain magistrates to preside over cases involving the environment and land in respect of any of the areas within the country. The Bill seeks to amend the Land Registration Act (No.3 of 2012) to empower subordinate courts to hear and determine disputes, actions and proceedings concerning land. Normally, you will find that individuals go to court and in the process of prosecuting their case, it is referred to the Environment and Land Court. This is the case and yet it is supposed to be determined and somebody has taken a lot of time in prosecuting this matter. So, by empowering subordinate courts and the Chief Justice having power to transfer the judges to these courts, it saves the individuals time and legal fees to be paid to the lawyer so that they execute their cases. It saves time because with this amendment, any subordinate court can hear and determine that case. The Bill seeks to amend the Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Act (No.33 of 2011). It seeks to amend that Act to make a distinction with regard to the approval procedure that applies to reappointments. That will be negating the gains made in this House, and on that, we will need to make amendments. On reappointments, if you are being reappointed to a different position, you also need to be vetted afresh in order to qualify. For example, after the initial vetting of the CSs and the Principal Secretaries (PSs), they have performed their duties. If somebody has performed a duty and has been involved in issues of corruption and incompetence while performing his duties, it should not be automatic that that person can be taken to another position without going through the parliamentary vetting process. If someone has been appointed to a fresh post, he must be subjected to the parliamentary vetting process so that Parliament can approve if he is committed or if he has failed to perform his duties. So, I oppose that and it has to be amended so that the powers of this House are not negated. The amendment to the Registration of Persons Act is long overdue because this is a position that will require the appointment of the Director of National Registration by the Public Service Commission (PSC). This person must be vetted so that we appoint somebody who is competent and is able to perform these duties diligently because the issuance of national identity cards and passports should be done by somebody who has been appointed to that position. The person should be sure that the post he is occupying is secure and safe, and that he is in that position to perform. With those few remarks, I support this Bill with amendments."
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