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    "id": 632186,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/632186/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 3036,
        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "Hon Speaker, this House must be slow to change some of the good legislations that have been passed before. We do not know the objective to be achieved by these amendments in the Bill. Clause 46 of the Bill charges the Public Service Commission (PSC) with the mandate of appointing commissioners to an independent entity like the National Land Commission (NLC). The current provision should remain and not the way it is proposed in this Bill. Clause 53 of the Bill states that control of land includes riparian and beach fronts which shall be better protected by the Commission for posterity. Land has been grabbed in some of these areas and Government agencies have given approval for development in some of these riparian areas. People have interfered with beach land. Under Clause 53(6)(a) of the Bill, the entity charged with security should not be used to limit personal economic rights since this is subjective. However, constitutional entities like the military and State corporations should suffice. Under Sub-Clause (7), the Commission is best charged with the responsibility of developing regulations since it bears the duty of researching, advising and mitigating disputes. The CS is too subjective to participate in the formulation of regulations. As I conclude because my time is running out, Clause 54 of the Bill states that the Commission should communicate to the lessee the interest of the national or county governments on local population. The CS is charged with registration of land hence regulation on lease renewable is the province of the Commission. The proposed amendment on Clause 54(c) of the Bill should be dropped or defeated because it is a bad precedent for Government to compensate a lessee for its own land as it is proposed under Clause 54(d)(4). If this Bill is carefully---"
}