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    "id": 632179,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "injustices and make good recommendations on the same. Deleting that means somebody somewhere wants those historical land injustices not to be touched at all, investigated or resolved. For that reason and many others that I have mentioned, this particular piece of legislation deserves not to be passed. I believe it was made at the height of the conflict between NLC and the CS Land, Housing and Urban Development and it is manifested here clearly that power is being shifted away from NLC to the CS. What is interesting is that there are a number of issues here that touch on community land. We just debated the Second Reading of the Community Land Bill. We gave a lot of power to communities to manage ownership of their own lands. This legislation now comes through the back door and takes away those powers from the community and gives them to the CS. These are conflicting pieces of legislation. I believe in passing this particular law we will, indeed, negate very many gains which Kenyans have made or were happy they had been put in place with regard to the implementation of land management in this country. The Law that has been mutilated in this regard is that of the Land Registration Act, because this Bill goes ahead to amend a number of pieces of legislations but in particular to note is the mutilation on the Land Registration Act. The fact is that the intentions are not right in my view. I know we have the next stage of this Bill, which is the Committee of the whole House where hopefully, we will bring up these issues. Before we get there, this is the kind of Bill that I urge this House to withdraw for further consultations. Indeed, it negates a number of very important gains that were implemented in 2012 or pieces that were passed in the past and are in a very draconian way being removed and mutilated. I strongly object to this particular Bill and I do not support it. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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