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    "id": 632209,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shimbwa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Omar Mwinyi Shimbwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise here as a Member of Parliament from Coast Region. This is the worst affected region because all land was deemed to be Government land. Pieces of land were given to anybody who was in the Government at that time. We have suffered a lot of injustices. We have witnessed families that have lived on land for generations being evicted at odd hours of the night only for that land to be allocated to somebody else who has maneuvered his way to get a title deed. We have seen people living along the beach being evicted from those areas because they have been found to be economically viable. Foreign people own this land and not the local people who have been there for over 1,000 years. The NLC was actually mooted to address these anomalies. If I may quote a few examples, we have the National Land Information System. This has been with the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development for ages. To date, nothing has been effective. Although billions of shillings have been spent, nothing has improved. Today, people are still losing money through fraudulent officers who work in those departments. Fraudsters defraud innocent civilians because the National Land Information System has not been effective. If we revert back this very important service to the CS for Land, Housing and Urban Development, we will be telling the world that we still want people to be conned. That is one reason why this Bill should be withdrawn with immediate effect and thrown at the Kibarani dump site in Mombasa. We have the County Land Management Boards, which are actually the devolved units of the Commission. Since the inception of these County Land Management Boards, there has been peace in our regions because whoever finds himself or herself uncomfortable, he or she will go to this place to seek remedy. These boards have been doing a very good job to ensure that people enjoy their rightful share. They have managed to make affected people remain patient while these matters are being addressed by the respective officers who visit these areas on a given time. The other aspect that should be taken care of is the fact that this Bill envisages to have the PSC appoint or vet the Commissioners of the NLC. Since when has another commission been responsible for the appointment of officers of another commission? This is very ridiculous and something that cannot be accepted. The NLC should remain an independent body and should be given all the powers that it requires to address the anomalies and the historical injustices that Kenyans have suffered for a very long period of time. I do not see anything wrong with the way the NLC has been operating. It is also very disappointing to note that the budget of this very important Commission, which all Kenyans have their hopes on has been slashed from Kshs1.3 billion to Kshs300 million."
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