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    "id": 641807,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/641807/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 444,
        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "The third thing that this Bill proposes to do – and which we really need to look at - is to deal with the minimum and maximum acreage of land. Article 68(c)(i) of the Constitution speaks to the fact that there will be legislation to do that. I will read it for you, Hon. Chair, because I respect you having done many things with you. It reads:- “Parliament shall enact legislation to prescribe minimum and maximum land holding acreages in respect of private land” I have seen what this Bill pre-supposes to do under Clause 159 (a). I hope I can find it. It reads in part that the Land Act is amended by inserting the following new sections immediately after Section 159. It makes an insertion in the Land Law that presupposes the creating of legislation in the manner Article 68 of the Constitution anticipates. That is wrong. If you want to look at the issue of maximum and minimum holding of land acreages, that particular legislation ought to be thought out properly and that mandate cannot be given to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in the manner of regulation. The thinking about giving the CS power in regulation to do maximum and minimum acreages is wrong. That is not what the Constitution anticipates in Article 68."
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