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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwadime",
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Mwadime",
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    "content": "Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. Land issues are very sensitive to Kenyans. If you talk about land, you are talking to the hearts of Kenyans. The amendments to land laws are reverting back powers which were given to the NLC by the Constitution to the CS. This is against the Constitution. This Bill deletes the County Land Boards. Therefore, dispute resolution mechanisms created through the NLC seem to be deleted and this contravenes the Constitution. All crucial functions, including adjudication, consolidation, registration and record-keeping will be reverted back to the CS, and yet in the Constitution, they were functions of the NLC. According to these amendments, it seems that the NLC is reduced to a mere body formed by the Public Service Commission (PSC). Therefore, issues like historical injustices are trashed. Instead, they have put simple provisions in this Bill. As we debate this Bill, I remind my colleagues to know that today I might be holding this office but tomorrow it will be somebody 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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