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    "id": 627626,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Bill in that it is addressing quite a bit of the legal historical issues that we have had around land and the extent to which it handles the general direction on how we have been handling trust lands in the past, given that it is only trust land that was clearly provided for in the old Constitution. This Bill addresses past challenges that were there in terms of ownership. I am isolating a number of weaknesses that are in this Bill. The Bill categorises community land into two namely, registered and unregistered land. It shows elaborate ways in terms of how to manage and administer registered community land. It does very well in looking at how conversions can be done. It looks at the issues of rights in a very good manner. However, on the second category of land that one can easily discern from the Bill in the name of “unregistered community land”, the Bill has not done very well. In my view, the Bill in every clause talks about registered community land and an addition of all those areas. For example, when we are talking about administration and management, it would have indicated very clearly how you administer and manage unregistered community land once you are through with the registered community land. When we are talking about issues of conversion, it would have done that very well for both. In a similar manner, all the subtitles that we have in the name of clauses could have been handled if we clearly gave a clear direction in terms of how to handle the issue of unregistered land. Clause 6 gives county governments the trustee arrangement for purposes of unregistered land and that is very good. I did not want to interrupt Hon. Lomenen when he was saying that county governments can transact land. That is disallowed in Clause 6(2). It disallows county governments from transacting land. However, when that happens, there is the issue of use. I want to differentiate between transaction and use. As a trust, the county government will place unregistered land to some use. This Bill needed to have clearly indicated what a county 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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