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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, today, the whole country from individual private land owners to constituencies and counties is full of conflicts from Western, North Eastern to Coast. As a country, we must agree once and solve all these conflicts. Clauses 14 to 31 of the Bill propose various amendments to the Act to bring consistency between the provisions and correct the typo and grammatical errors found in these laws. In the last Parliament, we enacted some of these laws past midnight as there was a rush and there were a number of typo errors. Allow me to move step by step because this is the Bill that broke the camel’s back between Mr. Swazuri, Mr. Matiang’i on one side and Charity Ngilu, when she was the Minister for Land, Housing and Urban Development. Clause 32 of the Bill proposes to amend Section 79 of the Act to provide for ratification of mistakes and updating the register. We are talking about historical injustices and there are many Kenyans who have title deeds. The Member for Laikipia North will agree with me as we had a chat this afternoon with colleagues and he told us that it is true that there are one million acres of land in Laikipia North in the hands of white men. That is a historical injustice. That section says that we must find a way to ratify that mistake, update the register and bring back part of that land. You cannot graze your animals in another person’s land who has its title deed. The title deed does not matter much to pastoralists. On a lighter touch, we say in my community that the boundary of a pastoralist ends where the camel turns back. The camel will only turn back if the environment is very hostile. If it is very cold and the camel cannot survive, it will turn back. Where it turns back is where the beacon of the land of a pastoralist is. I do not know whether the fishermen say that the fish will turn back. Clauses 33 to 40 propose various amendments of inconsistencies between various provisions of the Act. Clauses 2 to 41 provide amendments to the Land Registration Act. Clauses 42 to 46 of this Bill contain proposals to amend the NLC Act. We agreed that we are dealing with three laws, namely, the NLC Act, the Land Registration Act and the Lands Act. Clauses 42 to 46 contain proposals to amend the NLC Act. Why do they amend the NLC Act? They want to eliminate duplication of institutions at the county level. We do not have many institutions at the county level run by the Minister for Land, Housing and Urban Development or the NLC. It provides the manner in which the NLC shall undertake investigations of historical injustices and complaints recorded with them pursuant to Section 67(2)(e) which says that any historical land injustices must be resolved by the NLC. Clauses 42 to 46 harmonise the mandate between the Commission and the Ministry. We are all Kenyans, including those who have been given the mandate at the NLC. They should sit, have tea and resolve this matter for the interest of our country."
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