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    "id": 643332,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwiru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 107,
        "legal_name": "Alex Muthengi Mburi Mwiru",
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    "content": "If we look at the way things are in our Constitution, and how it has directed us, we will see that we used to have very many laws, Acts and statutes governing the administration of land in this country. At the time of the formation of the Constitution, Article 68(a) of the Constitution envisaged controlling a situation where those land laws were very many for ordinary Kenyans to comprehend and understand which law to apply, where and when. Article 68, which is on matters of legislation, says that Parliament shall revise, consolidate and rationalise existing land laws. We are calling this an omnibus law because we are trying to put the administration of land into one or fewer laws like the three laws we are using, namely; the Land Registration Act, the Land Act and the National Land Commission Act. That is to make sure that Kenyans exactly understand the regime of land administration in terms of where they can go and at what time other than referring to very many statutes. It is important to realise that we cannot afford to be skewed in any direction as a Committee, Parliament or nation. At the end of the day, we must be magnanimous enough to move forward in terms of land reforms. One thing that is very critical is historical land injustices. It is a very crucial matter especially in the Coast, Rift Valley and Nairobi regions as well as in some parts of the country. The Committee looked at the idea of the time we should base our land injustices, for instance, with regard to the Coast region. Do we base it to the time of the Chinese, Portuguese, Zanzibaris, Oman or British colonisation of that region? Look at that history? It is important for us to come up with a prudent legislation that looks at exactly what bedevils each region so that we can move together as a country. I can assure you that these are matters we have very much looked into. You will find them coming up during the Committee of the whole House stage. 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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