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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. First of all, I want to congratulate the Committee for doing a good job by making sure they consulted widely and involved stakeholders. It is one of the Bills that, if we pass, will be remembered in this nation. The pastoralist communities, as you know, still have unregistered land. The only way for us to protect these innocent Kenyans is for us to have such kind of a Bill where land can be protected for future generations. On the issue of ownership, I want to thank the Committee for making sure that the owner of the land is the community. These people are there by God’s design. For us to encourage them, we have to give them first priority to own that particular land. The county government should be a custodian. I have few comments to make to allow other Members to contribute. The first one is Clause 6(4) on the role of the county government. That clause is a bit ambiguous. We need to bring reality. The contentious area is what the county government will do with unregistered community land. The Bill says that we must register some community land. What about the unregistered land? In the event the county government transacts and registers community land, how will they involve communities? Unless the land is registered, when we give powers to county governments to deal with unregistered land, how far will they involve the communities? We must make sure that communities are involved. How long will county governments hold unregistered community land before it gives it back to the community or registers it? We need to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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