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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, if we say they must bring certificate of title, they will never get it. In fact, what will happen is that crooks will be forging letters from the lands office and giving to the committee and earning the income because most villagers do not know that if a billboard is erected on their pieces of land, they are entitled to earn some amount of money. The committee must also be responsible for advising the owners of the property, whether they have titles or not, that they are entitled to compensation as long as they can demonstrate that, that is their property. So, the issue of titles or documents should be where applicable, so that special cases on areas where land adjudication has not been done or someone bought land and has lived without a title or letters of administration have taken 20 years in court without determination, should be considered. The Estate of Koinange, for example, which I said is obscene and Sen. Kembi- Gitura was angry at me, is an estate that I still ask questions about. Koinange was never known for any hard work. All he was known for was following the late President Kenyatta everywhere and within less than 10 years, he left an estate of more than Kshs 30 billion running from Coast to Rift valley and everywhere. This is a product of abuse of office. We have seen it over and over. These are people who are not endowed with better brains than ordinary Kenyans. Hon. Senators here like Sen. Mungai and Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo among other professors, if you ask them what they own, they cannot even count because they do not have anything. Here is somebody whose duty was to sit next to the President every morning to evening and it turns up that he left an estate of Kshs30 billion which the family quarreled over for 20 years to share. If there is a case like that and other cases of ordinary Kenyans, then we cannot expect them to bring documents. Clause (e) is good because it obligates the advertiser to bring this kind of drawing so that it is orderly. However, where it requires that every building to show the line and servitude on the side, sometimes I do not know how you want to treat cases where there are these mud and grass thatched houses and are used for advertisements? They have neither plans nor documents, but they generate revenue. Where applicable, these stringent conditions may be put but not in all cases. Madam Temporary Speaker, advertisement should be made easy; make it generate revenue. A person who owns a huge rock along the road and another comes to advertise on it, the former must be paid so that they can earn a living. Clause 6 is on considerations of the applications. This where the crux of your Bill is because advertisements have run amok completely. They are placed in any manner they want. I have seen some erected across the road. If a high body truck passes, it will go with it. I have seen others which are obstructing other advertisements. If I have paid revenue to the county government and I have been given an opportunity to put up an advertisement for Sen. Wetangula for President 2017, and somebody comes after me and puts up another advert that Sungura Mjanja for president 2017 to block mine, what value do I get for my advertisement?"
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